In August 2021, the tech industry will mark the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM PC. It contained an Intel 8088 microprocessor and cost well over $5,000 in today’s dollars. After many decades, IBM and Intel are continuing to partner up. Only this time, instead of joint work on an early personal computer, ...

For Banco Bradesco, one of the largest banking and financial services companies in Brazil, resilience matters. With 1.5 billion monthly transactions for 72 million customers, Bradesco depends on availability for its services. And IBM’s z15 enterprise platform helps make it happen. “We can design solutions for seven nines of availability, and that’s the reason why clients ...

One problem confronting the enterprise world today is that when data is stored in multiple platforms, it also takes multiple security tools to keep that information safe. A SANS Institute survey found that nearly half of respondents lacked visibility into data processed within their own organizations and 55% struggled with the lack of integration between ...

Most successful tech entrepreneurs build companies and careers on their brainpower. But the founder and chief executive officer of Pegasystems Inc. built his company into a billion-dollar success by also using his hands. Alan Trefler (pictured) moved pieces around a chess board and won the World Open Chess Championship in 1975 at the age of ...

As IBM Corp. changes its business model, it’s also making significant changes to its PartnerWorld program, which was developed for any business that wants to partner with IBM. On Tuesday, the company announced it would introduce three specialized tracks for partners interested in building, servicing or selling around the hybrid and multicloud cloud space. “The IBM ...

Research released by Couchbase Inc. last year found that over 80% of enterprises across the U.S. and three other major countries had digital transformation projects fail, experience delay, or get scaled back. In the aftermath of the global pandemic, a reversal of that percentage is no longer mere wishful thinking to gain an edge on competitors. ...

In the meteorological world, cloud cover is measured by oktas. One okta is a small amount of cloud cover, and eight oktas means complete coverage with no breaks. In the tech world, cloud is only part of what has become a vastly complex technology landscape, and Okta Inc. has geared its security business to focus ...

If the proverb “iron sharpens iron” is indeed true, then an application of that wisdom should also apply to advancing the field of artificial intelligence. That’s at least what some researchers believe to be the future path for moving AI forward, based on the concept that leveraging two approaches that build intelligence can dramatically improve the ...

For telecommunications firms, the 5G wave is coming and it will usher in a new era of innovation. Yet the playbook for transformation from an open-source standpoint remains strikingly familiar to the senior leadership at IBM Corp. IBM’s edge opportunity is to build Red Hat-fueled end-to-end solutions that will move data wherever the infrastructure resides. ...

It has been barely 30 days since IBM Corp.’s new chief executive officer, Arvind Krishna, took the helm of the 109-year-old company. When he assumed control, Krishna made it clear that IBM’s focus would be on the hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, leveraging open-source capabilities brought by the acquisition of Red Hat Inc. As reflected in the ...