With more than 1.5 billion smartphones sold on an annual basis and the number of users approaching 2.5 billion this year, a case could easily be made that the smartphone model has some appeal. So, why not apply the same principles of a cross-platform interface, machine-learning integration, and app marketplace found in the smartphone to solve ...

Analysts are paid to have opinions, and Ray Wang (pictured), founder, chairman and principal analyst of Constellation Research Inc., doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to assessing the state of the enterprise tech world today. Take IBM Corp.’s blockbuster acquisition of Red Hat Inc. in October. The computing giant paid $34 billion to acquire ...

In a simpler information technology world, operations were confined to what lay inside the four walls of a data center. Instances, servers and middleware all hummed along in a smaller, easier-to-manage environment. Those days are long gone. “Now I’ve got my applications running in Salesforce.com offering software as a service. I’ve got three or four ...

In the corporate jungle, survival means getting an edge on the competition. For an analog business, numerous factors, such as proximity, brand and price, can keep it viable. But the rules of the game are different in the digital world where a form of Darwinism, the process of natural selection favoring the survival of some species ...

What happens when customers leave and a business has no idea why? That was the central question for Claro Colombia, the country’s largest mobile carrier, when it was confronted with the need to address customer churn. The answer came from working jointly with the Data Science Elite Team at IBM Corp. By gathering a massive ...

When IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty declared in her keynote address at last week’s Think conference that “there can’t be AI without IA,” she was making a crucial point regarding her company’s strategy. Before becoming distracted by the allure of artificial intelligence and the innovation it can bring, IBM intends to focus on the ...

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 ...