Salim Ismail (pictured) has a vision for the organization of the future, and it doesn’t look anything like what exists today. Centralized authority will become distributed, closed decision-making will move toward openness and transparency, and predictability will transition into flexibility and rapid change. “We now have the ability to scale an organization structure as fast ...

Walk into any National Football League stadium on game day and the scene is similar in many ways. There are cheerleaders, music, a very large scoreboard, vendors hawking food and drink in the aisles, and two helmet-clad teams doing battle on the field. Yet, what many people may not realize is that the game taking place in ...

The U.S. dollar accounts for two-thirds (63.5 percent) of global reserves held in central banks around the world, according to the latest data from the International Monetary Fund. It is essentially the de facto global currency and has been since the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. However, the expanding ecosystem of digital currencies and growing adoption of ...

When Satoshi Nakamoto released his seminal whitepaper on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called bitcoin in 2008, he also outlined the underlying technology to operate the fledgling digital currency. That platform — the blockchain — has since evolved into a major global force for powering transactions on a distributed ledger database. IBM Corp.’s focus on ...

Last year, the National Basketball Association implemented a decision to allow sponsors to place small logo patches on player uniforms. It was the first time that the NBA had permitted jersey advertising, and it led to a key question: How would sponsors know whether their advertising investment was worth the multi-million-dollar cost? One company recently ...

IBM Corp. announced the launch of Watson Assistant this week, an artificial intelligence agent that will allow enterprises to access stored data via text or voice command. IBM’s new digital assistant joins a growing list of AI-based offerings, such as Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana and Alexa for Business, designed to address data use cases in ...

The massive amounts of data flowing into enterprises today have been described as mountainous, overwhelming, an iceberg and a tidal wave. Whatever the term used, it’s a lot of information to process. Which, is why Cohesity Inc. has focused its business not on the minor share of information mostly visible throughout the information technology organization, ...

As the keynote presentations during day three of the IBM Think conference in Las Vegas came to a close, the message was hard to miss: IBM is all in on the blockchain, and it intends to use its considerable technology clout and finances to build a significant business around the extrasecure, distributed ledger platform. “IBM has a tendency ...

The cybsersecurity industry has a basic problem. There will soon be too many attacks and not enough trained human beings to deal with them. In what IBM Corp.’s top executive proclaimed as the “man and machine” era, the company has placed its own bet on intelligent systems to fill the gap. “The security industry has ...

The problems holding many companies back are not technology-based. What inhibits digital transformation growth are process and organizational strife, at least according to one Dell EMC executive. “Some organizations still treat big data and analytics like they do the digital warehouse,” said Matt Maccaux (pictured), global big data practice lead at Dell EMC. “The most ...