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The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy

April 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The thing about platforms that have a wide adoption and deep history is that they tend to persist. …

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Easing Enterprise Migration To The Cloud

October 19, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

No one knows better than IBM that the time, money, energy, and risk associated with changing platforms can hinder that change. …

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The Inevitability Of Private Public Clouds

August 3, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …

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IBM Extends GPU Cloud Capabilities, Targets Machine Learning

May 19, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

As we have noted over the last year in particular, GPUs are set for another tsunami of use cases for server workloads in high performance computing and most recently, machine learning. …

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The Once And Future IBM Platform

April 26, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

More than anything else, over its long history in the computing business, IBM has been a platform company and say what you will about the woes it has had through several phases of its history, what seems obvious is that when Big Blue forgets this it runs into trouble. …

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Transition To Platforms, Cloud Tough For IBM

October 20, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Being in business for over 100 years is an accomplishment, and IBM has made more than a few jarring transitions in its long history, having started out as a supplier of meat slicers, scales, time keeping, and punch card tabulating machines. …

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Inside IBM’s Real Systems Business

July 21, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

IBM made no bones about it. After divesting itself of its System x server business, which it sold off to Lenovo Group, and its Microelectronics chip making division, which Big Blue paid Globalfoundries to take, the company said that 2015 would be a year of transition on many fronts. …

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GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds

July 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …

Cloud

IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers

June 23, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …

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