IBM - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Big Blue morphes into huge cloud business by swapping CEO Rometty with cloud, Red Hat chiefs

  If anyone was still wondering how serious IBM is about being a major cloud player that question has been resoundly answered.

• Cisco and IBM offer a managed private cloud service

  Cisco and IBM have partnered to offer managed private cloud-as-a-service for VMware and IBM/RedHat OpenShift environments.

• Google offers IBM AS/400 apps new home in its cloud

  Search giant follows Microsoft in offering route to legacy workload modernisation via new Power Systems service in Google Cloud Platform.

• IBM quantum computing network adds new Fortune 100 explorers

  More businesses are experimenting with quantum computing via IBM’s Q Network, including Delta, Anthem, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo.

• IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security

  IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyber attacks.

• 3 reasons why healthcare CIOs love wearables

  Healthcare CIOs have been given a great gift for their efforts to deal with the transformation from pay-for-service to pay-for-value -- wearable devices. Strategically minded CIOs will aggressively take action to help their organization leverage this technology for big data analytics and population health management.

• Will Fault Tolerant Servers Improve Your Virtualized Environment?

  Companies are turning to fault tolerant servers as a way to improve uptime without experiencing the downtime associated with high availability solutions. But fault tolerant technology may not be right for every enterprise.

• IBM’s new Watson Assistant targets business with ‘white label’ service

  The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.

• How IBM plans to expand MobileFirst for iOS program

  IBM's MobileFirst for iOS initiative is now well into its third year. The head of the program and two of its customers talk to CIO.com about progress, challenges and plans for 2017.

• With Watson Element, Apple and IBM aim to transform education

  Apple and IBM this week released their first iOS app for academia. IBM Watson Element for Educators is designed to blend student data with curriculum and cognitive technology to improve and enhance personalized education for K-12 students.

• IBM says Macs save up to $543 per user

  IBM already has the world's largest enterprise Mac footprint, and it adds 1,300 new Macs every week. The company says its Apple devices save IT time and money, but the cultural changes at the 105-year-old company may be even more valuable.

• Cisco, IBM may be interested in buying Imperva

  Security vendor Imperva is shopping itself around and may be attractive to the likes of Cisco and IBM, according to Bloomberg.

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