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The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy
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
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
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
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. …
Compute
The Once And Future IBM Platform
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
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
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. …
Compute
GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
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IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …