In one fell swoop that is going to cost Big Blue a whopping $34 billion, IBM is going to become a modern software powerhouse in the datacenter that has to be contended with in an entirely different way. …
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. …
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …
At some point, every company that has equity, venture, or public investors, has to start being profitable. …
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
One of the most important lessons in marketing is that you don’t change something that is working, but that you also have to be able to carefully and cautiously innovate to protect against changing tastes or practices that might also spell doom for the business. …
The container craze on Linux platforms just took an interesting twist now that Red Hat is shelling out $250 million to acquire its upstart rival in Linux and containers, CoreOS. …
The gatekeeper to Arm in the datacenter has finally swung that gate wide open. …
Distributed telecommunications cloud environments offer service providers a way to more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively deliver services to end users, but they come with their share of complexity, management headaches, integration challenges and coordinating operations among multiple cloud vendors. …
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