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IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron
Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …
System z
AI
IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services
When you are International Business Machines and you do corporate IT deals in 185 countries around the world, political and economic uncertainty is always a problem. …
Compute
Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession
Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
Compute
The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue
Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …
Enterprise
Can A Leaner IBM Be Mean Enough To Grow In The Datacenter?
The company was named International Business Machines for a reason, and over the several decades that IBM concentrated on peddling managed services and consulting services to the largest corporations on Earth, with its Global Services behemoth representing two-thirds of its revenues, the company lost touch with, and took for granted, the machine part of its rich and long heritage. …
Compute
IBM Starts Showing A Little Hybrid Vigor
IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right, Big Blue does have a sizeable share of the system budget. …
Compute
Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its share of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. …
Compute
IBM’s Systems Business Awaits The Red Hat Effect
It is frustrating sometimes how IT vendors talk about themselves, particularly when it comes to public companies and those rare few who report financial results even though they are privately held. …
Cloud
The Horizontal And Vertical Platforms Of Big Blue
At its heart, and until the day it dies, if a corporation ever really dies, International Business Machines will be a platform company, no matter how much it tries to bamboozle itself or Wall Street or Main Street otherwise. …
Compute
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again
There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …