From online banking to strengthening the shared economy’s financial infrastructure, fintech startups are transforming the economic world. For banks, in particular, this represents both a threat to business-as-usual and a significant opportunity to innovate and improve competitiveness. With a well-known presence in the financial industry, IBM is exploiting the power of data and the hybrid ...

The growing complexity of the technology environment makes it impossible for a single vendor to offer all the solutions that businesses demand. Therefore, some tech companies have realized that the way is to come together to go further. One of those companies is IBM, which has accelerated its relationship with its partner ecosystem to respond ...

As data scales up, businesses face challenges of formatting unstructured data, aggregation from multiple sources, resiliency and security. This has given way to the growth of Fluent Bit, an open-source log processor and forwarder that allows enterprises to collect any data-like metrics and logs from different sources, enrich them with filters and send them to ...

While businesses are increasingly modernizing their IT infrastructure and going cloud native, the tools for developing and delivering applications to them are older, predating Kubernetes. Because of this, cloud native development has spawned a need for continuous integration and continuous delivery, or CI/CD, tailored to the requirements of these new architectures and processes, according to ...

As the IT infrastructure spams to multiple clouds, on-premises and at the edge, and it gets more complex, businesses are looking for a way to manage it all. That is how cross-cloud management control planes are becoming an enterprise priority, according to Bassam Tabbara (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Upbound Inc. The Crossplane ...

A growing number of use cases across many industries are driving the shift from core data center computing to the edge, where applications and processing power are closer to the devices that create or consume data to enable faster analytics. But this new architecture requires consistent application development and IT management, especially when operating in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that technology can be a powerful tool in education – online systems allowed students to migrate to homeschooling in a matter of weeks as governments tried to contain the spread of the virus. But much more can be done. With high dropout rates, Costa Rica engaged with startup EduTech de Centro ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, educational organizations had to quickly reinvent themselves to enable online learning and maintain academic activities. The Universidad de Los Lagos in Chile faced the challenge of moving to the cloud and building a highly available and secure system to serve 15,000 students – all in three weeks. The ...

Legacy technology systems often pose many challenges for organizations. With a 24-year-old COBOL-based mainframe system, Utah’s Department of Human Services was facing several obstacles: high costs, problems finding talent to maintain the platform, and, above all, difficulties in innovating. To address these issues, the State of Utah decided to modernize its information technology and relied ...

The telecommunications industry has goals that seem contradictory: to innovate at high speed while keeping services stable and secure. To address this complexity, Vodafone Germany chose to leverage the power of the cloud and modernize its IT systems with the support of Amdocs Ltd., a provider of software and services for media and communication companies. ...