By James Governor on June 27, 2017
I recently attended an IBM update on its analytics business. One of the core themes was simplicity. As we all know enterprise products generally, and IBM products specifically, are not known for their ease of use. So when I heard that IBM middleware had a new approach – dubbed Download and Go – so […]
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By James Governor on June 6, 2017
Remember that time, when we used to blithely use Docker and microservices interchangeably? Docker has proved to be excellent in simplifying dev and test workflows, while Kubernetes has emerged as a strong alternative center of gravity for deployment of container-based apps. But it’s still early days in terms of production deployment of container based […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 14, 2016
2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper, Safer, Mantra Of Hyperscale Source: Google As clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscale data centers. Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up and flex down on compute power, storage, networking, and memory […]
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By David Terrar on November 4, 2016
Microsoft responded to the incredible rise of Slack, the cool “new kid on the block” inter office chat app, with Teams. I watched the live stream of the announcement and was surprised. I expected a Slack alternative, a “Slack killer” even, but what they’ve announced is much more significant. Teams and Slack together signpost the […]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on June 14, 2016
The company that first brought the industry the then-breakthrough technology of groupware in the 1990s is now moving towards cognitive collaboration for differentiation, says IBM’s new head of product management for collaboration, Ed Brill, as he grapples with the company’s many offerings in the space.
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 6, 2016
Salesforce Announces Intent To Acquire Demandware For $2.8B On June 1st, 2016, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Burlington, Massachusetts based Demandware for $75.o0 per share or around $2.8 billion in cash. Constellation predicts a $10.01B market for matrix commerce solutions as new digital platforms and network economies emerge. Constellation’s quick merger analysis […]
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By Phil Fersht on March 15, 2016
A momentous event occurred in the world of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) today, when its pioneering vendor, Blue Prism, became the first pureplay RPA vendor to announce officially its intention to IPO. Naturally, this sparked some feverish debate among the RPA cognerati over whether we may see one of the established services firms make a […]
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By Tom Raftery on February 2, 2016
IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they […]
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By Michael Coté on January 4, 2016
So here we are, as of this writing a good twenty-nine years after the “hatchet job,” and Kodak has declared bankruptcy. The once-humming factories are literally being blown up, and the company’s brand, which Interbrand had valued at $14.8 billion in 2001, fell off its list of the top one hundred brands in 2008, with […]
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By Phil Fersht on October 19, 2015
Anyone who knows me well has seen how hard we’ve been pressing the importance of security and trust in a global services delivery environment, since we founded HfS. In short, we’re moving into a world where reactive fixes to security breaches is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Savvy enterprises simply have to deploy proactive, holistic […]
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