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 ...

In the game of poker, it’s called a “showdown” when two or more players reach the final round of betting and all must show their cards. With IBM Corp.’s announcements this week focused on artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud solutions, 5G and edge computing, the technology giant is showing some cards it hasn’t been playing before. ...

Coming into its Summit Virtual Experience at the end of April, Red Hat Inc. clearly had a checklist of items it wanted to accomplish. Take virtual machines and bring them into containers? Check. Announce a new version of OpenShift with software to help developers manage application workloads? Check. Create a single control point for cluster ...

For practitioners whose business it is to facilitate interaction between companies and communities, these are indeed interesting times. Large in-person conferences, industry cocktail receptions with live music, and blogger lounges in hotel ballrooms where much of the tech world’s business gets done are so 2019. The new reality is live streaming or pre-recorded content, chat ...

When Gainsight Inc. Chief Executive Nick Mehta decided to announce that his firm’s upcoming online-only conference had set a record for registrations, he didn’t send out a self-congratulatory, dry company memo. He went on a video stream from his home before the entire company and had his kids pie him in the face. “The world wants to see CEOs ...