Chris Preimesberger

LAS VEGAS – Amid all the talk, videos and live demos at IBM Think 2018 around artificial intelligence, quantum computing and dozens of other cool technologies, the host company also spent some quality time on good, old-fashioned security. IBM on March 20 unveiled four new cloud services for mainframe-level data protection—solutions already trusted by the […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM, which brought us monstrous mainframe computers in the early 1960s, Selectric typewriters in the 1970s and the first Windows PCs in the early 1980s, has a new mission in life in the 20-teens: to make artificial intelligence part of the IT woodwork. And it looks like they’ve got a good playmaker with that […]

LAS VEGAS – VMware, whose software resides in virtually every data center in the world but who also wants to become a player inside enterprise office PCs, released some new features for its Workspace ONE platform March 21. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtualization software maker claims that this is the first and only “intelligence-driven digital […]

LAS VEGAS—In the latest illustration as to how IBM is installing Watson as the virtual beating heart of its entire franchise, the company at the Think 2018 conference on March 20 launched a set of tools called Watson Data Kits, which are designed to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence applications for enterprises. Watson Data […]

LAS VEGAS – IBM’s Think 2018 conference, the first-of-its-kind rollup of five older conferences–IBM World of Watson, InterConnect, Edge, Amplify and Connect—has attracted more than 35,000 people representing most of the countries in the world to the Mandalay Bay Conference Center this week. “This is officially the largest event in IBM’s history!” Ginny Rometty (pictured, […]

Data integration has always ranked high among the most persistent IT system problem areas, no matter what the use case. It’s just really is hard to do, and even if you do it well, unexpected problems always seem to pop up. Salesforce apparently has had enough of that and has come up with a clever […]

LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t that long ago that established IT providers such as IBM, Microsoft, SAP, HP and Oracle all were busy working inside their own virtual fortresses, developing proprietary software or hardware, fending off the growing Linux and Apache trends–and generally eschewing the idea of community-type development. That’s pretty much all gone with […]

Xilinx (pronounced “zye-links”) is one of those funny-named, specialized companies that makes a cog in data center machinery that is important for efficiency’s sake but that is so melded into the infrastructure that it’s easy to be overlooked. The San Jose, Calif.-based chipmaker, which makes an item called a field-programmable gate array, or FPGA for […]

Seven Ways Enterprises Are Using Supercomputers to Solve Global Issues Supercomputing has morphed greatly since its early days back in the 1970s. From megabytes and megaflops to petabytes and petaflops, supercomputers have evolved over the years to keep pace with the exponential growth of data and the constant demand for ever-increasing application performance at scale. […]

Object storage software provider Cloudian revealed March 15 that it has acquired Infinity Storage, a Milan-based pioneer in software-defined file storage solutions. Terms of the transaction were not released. In adding Infinity’s technology, Cloudian is able to offer customers integrated file and object-based storage packages that consolidate all unstructured data types into what the company […]