Projected Rise in IT Spending Increases the Need for Managed Services
Businesses are focusing on multi-year projects in 2022, as companies move away from 2020’s turnkey technology projects and 2021 efforts to fix and pad the technology stack. For the first...
IoT cloud services: How they stack up against DIY
AWS, IBM, and Microsoft, with the capacity to handle massive data sets, machine learning, and AI in the cloud, have created managed services to support IoT, but is that best...
IBM buys Turbonomic for AIOps, hybrid-cloud management support
By acquiring Turbonomic, IBM gains tools that manage performance of everything from applications and containers to virtualization, cloud, and on-prem compute, storage, and network resources. Big Blue kept its checkbook...
The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of 2021
The first three months of 2021 saw three billion-dollar-plus acquisitions in hardware, software, and services, and plenty of other merger activity in professional services. Already in 2021, we’ve seen enterprise...
IBM sharpens its hybrid cloud, AI focus with Instana buy
Instana brings AI-powered application performance management for hybrid clouds to IBM lineup. IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Instana, an application performance monitoring firm. Financial details were not...
IBM expands the role of its hybrid-cloud security package
IBM adds data, threat intelligence and security service to Cloud Pak for Security system. IBM is expanding the role of its security-software package for hybrid-cloud deployments by improving the gathering...
IBM set to spin-off managed service business to focus on hybrid cloud
IBM plans to dedicate itself to hybrid cloud, AI, quantum computing, and mainframe technologies, and is breaking out its $19B Managed Infrastructure Services group in order to do so. IBM...
Cyber security is next frontier for open source
Open security will facilitate the interoperability and capabilities of cyber security tools while alleviating vendor lock-in for enterprises, says IBM. Cyber security is the next frontier for the open source development...
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. Cisco and IBM have rolled out a pair of managed private-cloud services aimed at customers looking...
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 cyberattacks. IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely...