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Kyndryl branches out into business consulting
Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the services company that spun out of IBM Corp. nearly a year ago, has launched a business consulting practice to complement its mostly technology-focused service lines. Kyndryl Consult is aimed at aligning technology projects around business outcomes, the company said. Services cover IT strategy and operations, cloud migration, application and mainframe modernization, ...
Cloud growth boosts SAP results despite falling license revenues
Strong performance in SAP SE’s cloud business drove better-than-expected third-quarter revenue, although the company said today that it’s tightening cost controls in an uncertain economic climate in Europe. Total revenue grew 5%, to $7.84 billion, beating analysts’ expectations of $7.62 billion. Cloud and software revenue climbed 5%, to $6.71 billion. SAP said it benefited from ...
Red Hat targets complex edge uses with lightweight OpenShift implementation
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today is stepping up its support for small edge devices with the introduction of a new software package. Red Hat Device Edge delivers an operating environment compatible with the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers and that runs on devices such as robots, “internet of things” devices and point-of-sale terminals. It’s based ...
Red Hat’s virtual Linux workstation is now available on AWS
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The product is a virtual Linux workstation that can be accessed via Amazon’s NICE DCV remote visualization protocol, a standard web browser or a Windows or Mac thin client. Red ...
IBM says its new tape archive battles ransomware while cutting energy costs
IBM Corp. is stressing security and sustainability with today’s announcement of a tape library for archival storage use that can be physically air-gapped to protect against ransomware and that the company claims uses 97% less power than spinning disks. The IBM Diamondback Tape Library is aimed at organizations with very large archival storage needs that ...
Investors cheer as IBM beats estimates and issues upbeat forecast
Investors who have been anticipating IBM’s third-quarter earnings as a bellwether for the fortunes of the overall technology industry got a reason to cheer this afternoon as the company reported third-quarter results that handily beat expectations and issued an optimistic forecast for the full year. Third-quarter revenue rose more than 6% from a year ago, ...
‘Stupid pill’: Fees for moving data around the cloud persist despite rising customer ire
When it comes to the fees the big cloud platform providers charge for customers to retrieve their data, Vince Kellen is pretty blunt. “It’s a stupid pill,” he said. “I believe they do this because they believe it will keep me from leaving them. I call that ‘value subtract competition.’” Kellen, who is the chief ...
Qualtrics says it can reliably correlate employee satisfaction with customer experience
Qualtrics International Inc. today announced a new product line that it says can automate the task of connecting and measuring relationships among employee, customer and brand experiences. Qualtrics CrossXM lets organizations correlate employee experience metrics like manager support, career development and recognition with the impact on customers as measured by satisfaction scores, repeat business and other ...
Oracle opens its full internal development platform for customer and partner use
Oracle Corp. today is making the full range of user interface design tools, templates and objects that it uses to develop its commercial applications available to all users of its Oracle Applications Platform. The release is the culmination of a three-year effort to overhaul the company’s user interface along a set of design principles it calls Redwood. The ...
Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’
When Walmart Inc. commits to something, it tends to think big. Building a supercloud is no exception. For the past two years the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant has been putting in place an abstraction layer that masks the distinctions between its preferred public cloud providers, internal hybrid cloud and edge computing nodes in 10,000 locations ...