Tag: IBM
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🗂 Link: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery
“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf…
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Link: IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut
The effort has started with IBM bundling Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform with more than 100 IBM products in what it calls Cloud Paks. OpenShift lets enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of infrastructure of choice, be it private or public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and…
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Link: IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat
The reason for this hands-off attitude for such expensive acquisitions is simple: Both VMware and Red Hat live and die by the fact that they are neutral to any particular platform. While IBM may prefer Red Hat’s various elements of the stack – the Enterprise Linux operating system, the OpenShift container system, the OpenStack cloud…
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Link: How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
MD Anderson Cancer Center partnered with IBM Watson to create an advisory tool for oncologists. The tool used natural-language processing (NLP) to summarize patients’ electronic health records, then searched databases to provide treatment recommendations. Physicians tried out a prototype in the leukemia department, but MD Anderson canceled the project in 2016—after spending US $62 million…
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Link: Assessing IBM i’s Role In Digital Transformation
Making the financial case: “This is going to sound silly,” he says. “The hardest part isn’t necessarily the refactoring. The hardest part is convincing people to do this. Because, let’s be honest the upfront cost can be very scary, man. It can be frightening. The business is going to say, ‘We just put in X…
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Speed, Accuracy, and Flexibility, IBM circa 1920
The purpose of a sales force is to bring a company’s value proposition—its “deal”—to customers. That value proposition results in the development of a company’s “go-to-market” strategy, how it will implement that plan. Central to that activity can be a direct sales force, people who meet face-to-face with customers, a typical approach with complex and…
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Management, as practiced by a young IBM
Of course, there were countercurrents. Managers wanted to control activities. That impetus for control and management of potential risks led to the rise of bureaucracy, characterized by highly defined processes. Generations of executives micromanaged people all the way down the organization while fighting the growth of paperwork and “signoffs.” Such behavior also originated with Watson…
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🗂 When is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG?
Short plan for getting rid of outsources. upperedge.com/system-in…
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Link: OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets
While he would obviously be very happy to welcome new customers to the Canonical fold, he points out that IBM is a “smart company” and says that “the guy who led the acquisition is the guy who engineered machines to beat Gary Kasparov. You might hope that there’s a good chess game going on there…
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Link: The computational legacy is Oracle’s cloud opportunity today
The company said it was saving most of its cloud-native announcements for KubeCon in December, but highlighted its new managed Kubernetes service (OKE, launched in May), platinum-level membership in the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation and growing support of open source projects (e.g., Fn, a functions project; Terraform for Oracle Cloud orchestration) as evidence that it has…
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Link: Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat
While many organizations have extensive on and off premise infrastructure investments, comparatively few of them are sophisticated in the way that those environments are tied to each other. If expectations are scaled back to the more realistic “multi-cloud” – the idea that an organization may have investments in more than one environment – the relevance…
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Link: IBM earnings Q2 2018
“This marks IBM’s third consecutive quarter of revenue growth, following five years of year-over-year revenue declines. In the quarter revenue rose 4 percent.” Original source: IBM earnings Q2 2018
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Link: IBM Drops Cloud Management Platform Onto Kubernetes
“The CMS platform is used by organizations to manage enterprise applications. Those applications include offerings from SAP and Oracle. CMS includes security, disaster recovery, automated infrastructure, and application management…. IBM launched its Cloud Private service last November. It’s built on a Kubernetes-based container architecture that supports integration and portability of workloads between the cloud environment…
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Link: Galloping greenback rocks Red Hat
“30 per cent growth in emerging technologies came in part from 100 new customers signing up for the company’s OpenShift container platform…. The company’s services business grew nicely and president and CEO Jim Whitehurst proudly pointed out that Red Hat now has over 1,000 subscribers, up 70 per cent year on year.” And: “The company…
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Link: Red Hat’s only business plan is to keep changing plans | ZDNet
A full on digital transformation pitch from Red Hat’s CEO. Original source: Red Hat’s only business plan is to keep changing plans | ZDNet
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Link: IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments
Also contains a chronology of IBM/RedHat partnerships. Original source: IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments
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Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain
A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner: ‘When it comes to supply chains, Valdes believes that blockchains could play an important coordinating role. “If you have a fragmented business ecosystem, with many parties who don’t know each other but need to do business, then they could collaborate through a blockchain,” he says. But…
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Link: European privacy regulations predicted to damage digital advertising revenue
“Citi cites forecasts that ePrivacy could trigger a 70% reduction in European display ad revenue, and a 33% cut in digital ad budgets, either of which could eviscerate Facebook and Google, at least under their current business model.” The narrative that these are “tech companies,” at at least that these are the only tech companies,…
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Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers
“Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are adequately staffed with design talent are getting to market twice as fast as without. These teams are also seeing up to a 75% reduction in design and development time.” Original source: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for…
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Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain
“For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a blockchain-based system to track the supply chain of food could help vendors pinpoint the farm it came from, locate the stores where it’s sold, and throw away only the lettuce that’s tainted.” Original source: IBM’s big bet…
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