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Marketers need to unify channels to unleash big data’s potential
An analysis of your sales activity shows that 80 percent of your deals close on a Thursday. How does that affect the cadence of customer contacts you initiate early in the week? Or is it just a coincidence? Questions like these are the type that data scientists tussle with every day, and they’re just the ...
IBM betting cloud race will go to the Swift-est | #IBMInterConnect
Could Apple’s greatest contribution to the IT industry turn out to be a programming language? Judging by the buzz at week’s IBM InterConnect conference, that just might be so. The Swift language that Apple created and then open-sourced just a couple of months ago is taking the development world by storm. It’s already the most ...
Watson, IoT, security on display at #IBMInterConnect Day Two
At IBM these days, it seems that Watson is the answer, regardless of the question. The Day Two general session at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas was the chance for the world’s most famous non-human Jeopardy! champion to take center stage. IBM says only one percent of applications have what is calls “cognitive” capabilities ...
BMC upgrades toolset for mapping massive IT data centers
BMC Software Inc. has upgraded its IT discovery and dependency mapping toolset and rebranded the product as BMC Discovery. Formerly called Atrium Discovery and Dependence Mapping (ADDM), BMC Discovery has about 1,000 existing customers and is “a core component of our digital enterprise strategy,” according to Robin Purohit, president of BMC’s service support organizations. BMC ...
Sphere 3D brings hyper-convergence to virtual desktops
Sphere 3D Corp. today announced a new release of its V3 virtual application and desktop suites, targeting three different deployment scenarios ranging from large enterprise to small branch office. Sphere 3D develops software that enables virtual desktop users to access applications and virtual desktops through a unified portal with single sign-on from any device. “A desktop ...
Customers take the reins in #IBMInterConnect keynote
IBM let customers do the talking as it kicked off its InterConnect 2016 cloud conference this morning in Las Vegas. Customers from Siemens AG’s Buildings Technologies Division (also an IBM partner), investment management firm Alpha Modus Corp. and Westpac Banking Corp. told how they are moving massive amounts of infrastructure to the cloud, in the ...
VMware alliance leads Big Blue cloud blitz at #IBMInterConnect
IBM kicks off its biggest-ever cloud computing conference in Las Vegas today with a fusillade of announcements intended to deliver a little shock and awe while underscoring the company’s commitment to hybrid cloud. Along with more than new 50 cloud products and services that the company says will “make virtually any data set and app ...
Hybrid cloud guns ready to roar at #IBMInterConnect 2016
Expect to hear plenty about hybrid clouds, Bluemix, open source, partnerships and, of course, Watson this week as IBM kicks off its InterConnect cloud computing conference in Las Vegas. The company will have plenty to talk about. In recent weeks it has acquired three digital advertising agencies as well as a healthcare analytics provider, teamed ...
HPE Cyber Risk Report: Collateral damage, ransomware and the new perimeter in your pocket
There are enough details in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s new Cyber Risk Report to induce a headache in all but the most dedicated security wonks, but that isn’t a bad thing. Rather, it’s a testament to the scope and depth of analysis in this 96-page document released today by HPE Security Research. HPE summarizes the ...
VMware gives AirWatch single sign-on, app catalog support
VMware Inc. has enhanced its AirWatch enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform with enhanced deployment security and workflow features. AirWatch 8.3 is intended to address the continuing quest to “enable more work to be done on the mobile platform,” said Blake Brannon, vice president of product marketing for AirWatch. “User experience trumps everything at the end ...
