The leading image for IBM Corp.’s case study with a banking customer — Nationwide Building Society — is not a teller window, deposit slip, or even an ATM. It’s a digital watch. That’s because as the United Kingdom-based financial institution sought to reinvent its business processes for the digital age, it could no longer rely solely on ...

A major focus of the announcements from IBM Corp.’s Think conference last week involved artificial intelligence and making it available across all cloud platforms. This “AI everywhere” approach applies to IBM’s storage strategy as well. In December, IBM announced a storage system co-designed with Nvidia Corp. for AI workloads and various data tools, such as ...

When it comes to cloud-managed databases, IBM Corp. has designed an approach to let developers focus on building applications while it maintains cloud-based systems to save cost and make administration easier. “Cloud-managed databases, at its core, is about simplifying adoption of cloud-provided services and reducing the capital expense that comes along with developing your applications,” said ...

Multicloud means multichoice, and that can get complicated real fast. When Chuck Robbins, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., spoke on his company’s earnings call last week, he acknowledged what enterprise companies had been experiencing for some time. Today’s businesses have a “more complicated environment than they had five years ago,” said ...

Linux has blossomed into the right platform at the right time for enterprise computing. When she was vice president of Cognitive Systems at IBM Corp., Stefanie Chiras (pictured) kept a vial of metal on her desk, a memento of an internship spent developing advanced materials for NASA that would be light enough to be carried ...

IBM Corp.’s customers are not just looking for the company to simply deliver services anymore. They want help in developing new business models and transforming the enterprise, according to analysts. Meeting customer need will depend a great deal on how IBM leverages its cloud strategy and the acquisition of Red Hat Inc. “IBM has taken ...

On today’s farm, a silo is more than just a place to store grain. It represents an isolated pocket of data, information that could dramatically improve crop yields and capitalize on consumer demand if properly channeled across the agricultural ecosystem. The Weather Co., a subsidiary of IBM Corp., is looking to break down data silos ...

During the IBM Think conference in San Francisco this week, IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty declared that a combination of private data centers and cloud computing would result in a market worth $1 trillion by next year. That’s the hybrid model reshaping the enterprise landscape, and IBM has clearly set its sights on becoming a ...

In today’s privacy-sensitive climate, when a large technology company is in position to gather a significant amount of data from a client’s business operation, the next question is fairly obvious. How exactly will that data be used? Although IBM Corp. is not dependent on a business model that amasses a ton of data so that ...

The keynote remarks delivered by IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty at IBM Think in San Francisco on Tuesday were less of a product pitch and more of a dialogue with partners and customers around digital reinvention and the evolving role of multicloud in the enterprise. The presentation comes at a time when the rest of ...