Charles King

Artificial intelligence (AI) projects can incorporate a wide variety of computing and data storage technologies and services. However, enterprises hoping to use AI to gain or add value to their businesses must be especially vigilant when it comes to planning and enabling these projects. Commercial solutions vary significantly in terms of quality and performance. More […]

That computing technologies are constantly evolving is indisputable, but an associated issue that is seldom discussed is that the terms we use to describe technology solutions are largely calcified. Personal computers (PCs) once denoted cumbersome desktop products that almost entirely ran on Intel silicon, ran some version of Microsoft Windows and utilized packaged software applications. […]

Edge computing is evolving rapidly, partly because of ongoing improvements in the underlying technologies and partly because our understanding of what it takes to develop and deliver successful solutions continues to mature. That is especially true in the case of emerging commercial applications, like the next-gen video processing that is central to emerging 5G mobile […]

It is difficult to think of an industry that has been more deeply involved with and fundamentally transformed by computing technologies than financial services, especially via their engagements with IBM. After all, some of the earliest workplace solutions that banks employed were mechanical calculators–literally the “Business Machines” in IBM’s acronym. Those devices eventually were replaced […]

A singular challenge during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic is a tendency to focus on current problems while letting longer term issues take care of themselves. That point is entirely understandable; it’s clearly wise to focus on doing all you can today to stay healthy and alive, but doing so risks missing or slighting […]

In the normal course of tech industry happenings, spring is the season of Tier 1 vendor conferences for customers and partners. By this time last year, I had attended CES, IBM Think and PartnerWorld, and Dell Tech World, and was preparing to fly to Orlando, Fla., for Lenovo Accelerate. This year the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

Most of the time, the enterprise server market moves at glacial speed with changes occurring so incrementally that they are barely visible to the naked eye. But occasionally a technological advancement or a market rebalancing sparks a massive shift that causes people to rethink long-held assumptions. This dynamic is especially apparent in x86-based systems, where […]

The connections between IT vendors and their channel partners, including value-added resellers (VARs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators (SIs) and managed service providers (MSPs), aren’t always clear to outsiders. In one sense, these are purely business relationships determined and defined by contractual and service agreements. But closer examination reveals critical links where success depends […]

Earth Day 2020 arrives at a strangely terrible and terribly strange juncture of events. With COVID-19 shuttering businesses and stunning large swathes of global economies, the internet, service providers and cloud computing platforms are playing key roles in everything from streaming entertainment to social networking to educational programming to enabling thousands of companies’ work from […]

There has never been a time when the values of IBM’s Z mainframe solutions were clearer. As millions of organizations and billions of workers worldwide grapple with often unimaginable uncertainties, the remarkable resiliency, continuity, data privacy and security capabilities that define mainframe computing help ensure that companies can and will remain open for business. Those […]

It’s easy to define successful business leaders by one or two characteristics—resolution, imagination, compassion—and by the successes or failures for which they are best remembered. However, it’s futile to consider these points without keeping broader context in mind. After all, companies and their leaderships don’t operate in a vacuum. Like individuals and families, they are […]

It doesn’t take long for the world to be turned upside down. Three months ago, despite dire reports of a new coronavirus and growing epidemic in China’s city of Wuhan, work and leisure elsewhere were preceding pretty much as normal, especially in the tech industry. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) attracted over 175,000 attendees […]