As cloud native workloads become more functional and go mainstream as the linchpin of hybrid cloud and edge strategies, protecting data that lives inside containers is becoming crucial for organizations. Enterprises need high availability, reliability and scalability, and combining these across different environments without adding even more complexity and costs is key, according to Sam Werner (pictured, right), ...

As the hybrid cloud becomes one of the main support structures for the digital transformation, a new common demand from companies is to have a consistent and manageable platform across this complex environment. One way to meet this need is to enable companies to consume public cloud services anywhere else in their IT infrastructure in ...

While some companies only tried to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic, others decided to invest even more in their transformation and innovation projects to better face the disruption and prepare for the future. Health insurance provider Anthem Inc. signed an agreement with IBM in March 2020 to further modernize its IT infrastructure and infuse more ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has taken business to new heights of technological innovation, making organizations more dependent on technology than ever before, operational resilience has become the watchword for enterprises. IBM’s approach to this scenario is to address resilience and security together, according to Michelle Weston (pictured, right), director of security and resiliency services offerings ...

Unlike the 2008 economic crisis, the financial turmoil resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic did not bring liquidity problems to banks, but it did spur other, no less important issues. One of these issues is that digital transformation has accelerated the advance of fintechs and bigtechs, which now threaten the market share of the traditional financial ...

IBM has stepped up its bets on the hybrid cloud. With several acquisitions in the past few months, the company has added depth to its AI-powered application automation services for hybrid cloud customers to help them increase efficiency, cut costs and make operations easier to use. The acquisition of the startup Instana Inc., which is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made digital transformation essential for businesses and, at the same time, elevated finance to one of the top concerns of business leaders. IBM Global Financing has gained momentum in this scenario, assisting businesses that want to invest in their hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence journey. “In the past, we might have ...

When we swipe a credit card to pay for a product or service, we expect a response from the financial institution, which in turn needs to assess whether the transaction is fraudulent or not before accepting it. All in less than a millisecond. This is a great example of how artificial intelligence can be applied ...

The rapid pace of digital transformation and the growing adoption of a hybrid cloud infrastructure has added layers of complexity and cost to data management. The solution is the development of an intelligent data fabric to enable automation and a frictionless access of information, according to Madhu Kochar (pictured), vice president of offering management, data ...

As cloud native computing proves its value as a more modern and dynamic IT architecture, businesses become more interested in this infrastructure. But modernizing tech is not always an easy task, especially for large enterprises with great amounts of legacy applications. The Konveyor community is a group that help companies and tech teams migrate applications ...