Charles King

Transformation is a commonplace concept in the tech industry, and for good reason. Since the very beginning of computing, servers, personal computers, storage and networking systems and other technology products and services have been employed to fundamentally alter the ways that people live and work. Transformational IT tools and solutions have helped organizations achieve goals […]

Reports of the imminent demise of IBM’s Z mainframes, the company’s flagship enterprise system platform, have been floated–only to plummet ignominiously earthward–for more than a quarter-century or nearly half of the time the mainframe has been commercially available. Such rumors initially arose among IBM’s competitors in the early 1990s, when the company was on the […]

At Dell Technologies World 2019 earlier this month, Virtustream—Dell Technologies’ enterprise-class cloud business—announced a pair of new initiatives worthy of consideration. The first was an expanded collaboration between Virtustream and Equinix, a provider of private networking solutions for directly connecting enterprise customers with cloud computing platforms.  The second was a major update of the Virtustream […]

Continual evolution is the foundational truth underlying tech industry chestnuts such as Moore’s Law, and it provides the subtext for innumerable marketing and promotional campaigns. In fact, it’s one of IT’s biggest selling points. But a valuable, if less-discussed, point to consider is the top-down nature of how this evolution usually proceeds. Building new products […]

Shiny new startups are so central to the tech industry’s culture and sense of self-worth that folks often neglect or even disparage larger, better-established vendors. That’s dumb for any number of reasons, but high on the list is that it misses a key issue: the critical importance of self-reinvention in tech firms’ long-term survival. Constantly […]

In a keynote event March 25 and hosted at its new headquarters facility in Cupertino, Calif., Apple announced four new and refreshed digital services aimed at the company’s current customers and other consumers. Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) was emcee for the launch event. The service offerings included: Apple News+, a subscription service attached to […]

There’s a growing consensus around the value multi-cloud as the cloud consumption model of choice for enterprises, but why that’s true is sometimes muddled with PR jargon and IT vendor clichés. On the upside, there are also clear examples of enterprises using multi-cloud offerings to their benefit, such as the recently announced partnership between food […]

Successful executives can be tough acts to follow, but by choosing the right people and implementing the right processes, the affected organizations and their people can continue their trajectory. Dell Technologies’ Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) and Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions group offers a great example of how this works. Following Joyce Mullen becoming the […]

LAS VEGAS—Keynoting the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a considerable honor, especially the opening session when the event’s tens of thousands of attendees (over 182K at CES 2018) and thousands of media members (6,600+ in 2018) haven’t suffered from days of crowded conditions, noise pollution, sleep deprivation and the food/drink for which Las Vegas is […]

Data storage has an odd position within the IT continuum. Although widely recognized for the critical roles they play in computing infrastructures of every kind and size, storage solutions tend to receive less public attention than microprocessor and memory technologies. That is a serious oversight, especially when one considers how important storage is in crucial […]

More than two decades on, the continuing evolution and growth of open technologies qualify as one of the industry’s largest and most surprising success stories. Remember that in the late 1990s, open source companies, products and standards directly challenged leading, seemingly indomitable vendors. In fact, many of those companies considered open source to be explicitly, […]