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IBM Strengthens Cloud Offering with VMware #IBMInterConnect
IBM and VMware are teaming up to enable enterprise customers to extend their existing workloads from on-premises software-defined data centers to the cloud. IBM announced the news yesterday at its InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas. IBM customers can now leverage VMware’s technologies with IBM’s 45 cloud data centers worldwide.
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IBM Strengthens Its Enterprise Collaboration Play
Big Blue is still betting big in the social collaboration space. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM recently rolled out new features to its Connections software — changes designed to keep pace with red-hot Slack and other competitors that want to replace email as the go-to hub for workspace conversations.
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Open Data Will Fuel Growth of Smart Cities
New research suggests smart cities will combine human effort with excellence in technology to create better places to live — and it's all predicated on the successful use of open data. According to Lux Research, “Smart cities seek environmental sustainability, economic prosperity and convenient, livable spaces" through the use
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IBM Gears Up to be a Big Data Hub
Data is a first class citizen in today’s business world.
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Whoa! Cisco Spends $1.4B on IoT Platform
Cisco clearly has faith in the Internet of Things (IoT) — or what it tends to call the Internet of Everything. It's spending $1.4 billion to buy Jasper, an IoT services platform provider. The acquisition means Cisco will be able to offer an end-to-end IoT platform that is interoperable
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IBM Buys 3rd Digital Agency in a Week
IBM is scooping up digital marketing agencies like hotcakes. The Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant acquired its third digital agency in a week today. It bought ecx.io, a Dusseldorf, Germany agency that becomes the latest addition to IBM Interactive Experience digital agency (IBM iX ).
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Meet Forrester's Hybrid Cloud Management Leaders
Seven vendors topped Forrester's first Wave for Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, in spite of some confusion in the market as to what exactly "hybrid cloud" means. Three vendors scored a place as strong contenders.
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IBM Adds a New Bounce to its DX Step with Latest Buy
Long before Kim Kardashian set out to break the Internet, someone else actually did. The year was 1999. During Super Bowl XXXIII, Victoria’s Secret ran an ad announcing that it would broadcast its famous lingerie fashion show on the Web.
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Sony Builds IoT Muscle With Altair Buy
Sony is building up its Internet of Things (IoT) muscle with the $212 million acquisition of Altair, an Israel-based chip maker focused on Internet-enabled devices. It also provides software relating to the LTE (Long Term Evolution) 4G cellular mobile phones standard.
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IBM Doubles Down on Video With Ustream Deal
IBM announced this morning it has acquired San Francisco-based Ustream, a cloud-based live video streaming services provider with whom IBM has had a working relationship. The move is a doubling down on video on IBM's part (or is that quadrupling?) following three major acquisitions the company has made in
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IBM Adds to its Predictive Might, Acquires IRIS Analytics
There’s no good time to catch someone using your stolen credit card, but doing so as it is happening sure beats discovering it when you get your bill. But according to IBM only 16 percent of banks who participated in a recent study indicated that they could predict fraud as
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Thoughts on IBM’s New Design Thinking Approach
As a public relations counselor, I'm often charged with helping clients assess their current corporate positioning strategies and tap sources of innovation within their organizations. It’s with this in mind that I bring to your attention to IBM's plans to increase design thinking within the organization.
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3rd Party to Operate Microsoft's German Data Center
Microsoft has revealed new details about its plans to open data centers in Germany. In a blog post, Ralf Wigand, senior program manager at Microsoft Germany, noted that the German data centers will be controlled by a third party — T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary.
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IBM's Direct Link Bypasses Internet To Hybrid Cloud
IBM is expanding its SoftLayer Direct Link services through new partnerships with Verizon, Equinix and Digital Reality to enable enterprises plug directly into its SoftLayer cloud. The new services bypass the Internet with secure direct connections to IBM ’s 13 data centers around the world.
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