Tag: IBM
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400 Java flaws fixed by centaurs
For the more than 400 flaws, Lightwell engineers backported patches into the widely deployed versions of each library. Any fix that also applies upstream goes back to the open-source project under responsible disclosure protocols while Clearinghouse participants keep their embargo protections. Neither company has named the affected libraries. Behind the fixes, engineers from both companies…
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McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale – Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and…
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Governed enterprise AI drives IBM’s strategy
The role of a CFO is you have to be focused on creating long-term sustainable competitive advantage and value creation, he said. Underneath that, you might ask, ‘Well, what does agent of transformation mean? What is the day in the life of a CFO?’ I would tell you, it’s a fundamentally different mindset and I…
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A project is what IBM delivered at e&. Custom integration, IBM Consulting on-site, bespoke architecture tailored to one customer’s requirements. It works, but it doesn’t scale. Every enterprise becomes its own implementation, with its own timeline, its own integration challenges, its own dependency on consulting availability. “A platform is repeatable. Channel partners can sell it.…
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Relevant to your interests, Saturday
The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them – Another go at LowCode: “It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are intended to be used only by the creator (or the creator plus a select few…
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Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie
How big the Kubernetes market? TAM-time for managing Kubernetes: The container management market has grown more than 20% over the past year, with a market value of over $2.5 billion in 2024. The market is forecast to exceed $4.5 billion in constant currency by 2028, with a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Gartner, August,…
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Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing – Looks useful for getting precious text out of the PDF silo, from IBM.
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IBM co-location program described as worker attrition plan – From the RTO-as-not-so-stealthy-layoff files.
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Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…
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IBM buys Kubernetes cost control startup Kubecost to expand its FinOps suite – They’ve bought a lot in this category – solution suite’ing. ”IBM said Kubecost’s capabilities will be integrated into an expanding FinOps Suite, enhancing the combined capabilities of Apptio, Cloudability, Instana and Turbonomic to provide what will perhaps be the most comprehensive cost…
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Business leaders are losing faith in IT, according to this IBM study. Here’s why – “Fewer than half (47%) of business leaders surveyed think their IT organization is “effective in basic services,” down from 69% surveyed in 2013, the survey shows. Only 36% of CEOs in the survey see IT as effective, down from 64%…
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AI may be distracting organizations from other IT priorities – Well, things are getting better, but enterprise AI is a distraction from keeping the lights on. // “IBM reports that fewer than half of the respondents believe their IT organization is effective in delivering basic services, compared to 69 percent from a survey in 2013.…
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Survey reveals generative AI employee fear – Lots of hopes and dream, not enough projects and experiments: “IBM’s research found that less than half of organisations are focused on GenAI pilots – and another 24% are doing nothing at all. But almost half (49%) of the CEOs polled expect to use GenAI to drive growth…
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IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? – Good analysis of the possible business strategy, the synergies to activate. // “Customers in specific industries, often highly regulated and conservative in outlook, have often chosen IBM and continue to do so. For them, the value of cloud is complementary at the margins, not a wholesale change…
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IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost – Enterprise AI businesses case are difficult: “But he also said buyers’ initial enthusiasm for generative AI has eased as they ponder whether it can generate return on investment. Users are finding that applying generative AI to a single business process could cost as much…
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Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure
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IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx – If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s…
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Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? – Analysis of IBM’s AI stuff. Also, a good side point: no one really knows anymore what IBM does.
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IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says – ’“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna told Bloomberg News, referring to “back-office” positions such as in human resources.’”
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Be less reliable – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #49
How I find time to make thumbnails for my enterprise videos. Sorry, I flaked The most operational self-help tactic I’ve learned in years is: get comfortably flaking out on things. Missing meetings, being late delivering things, being unreliable, skipping studying Dutch today (and tomorrow)…just failing at living up to your full potential. This thinking works…
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