IBM Boosts Its Hybrid Cloud with New Power Systems, Red Hat Features
Vendor discussions of cloud and hybrid cloud computing typically follow a “go where you know” trajectory. That is, server and silicon vendors pitch new and different cloud-focused hardware functions while software and services players focus on new applications and tools that make life easier for cloud-bound code writers, developers and data center staff. However, when it comes to hybrid...
IBM Storage: Squeezing Enterprise Value into Smaller Form Factors
The trickle-down effect of enterprise IT is as old as business technology. Vendors have long aimed new innovations at enterprises whose deep pockets and desire for competitive advantage will lead them to pay a premium for shiny new products. Over time and with the help of constant technological evolution, yesterday’s leading-edge solutions are reconfigured and repackaged for smaller companies...
Executive Q&A: Rola Dagher, Dell Technologies’ Global Channel Chief
It is hard to think of a senior executive who has broader and deeper work experience than Rola Dagher, Dell Technologies’ Global Channel Chief. Dagher and her infant daughter emigrated to Canada from Lebanon in 1989, joining other family members in Toronto. Seeking work and a better life, she first worked as a telemarketer for Bell Canada, which led to jobs in sales...
CES 2021: The Way Forward for Tech Conferences, Trade Shows
Like most tech industry analysts, I’ve spent quite a bit of time attending conferences designed to provide customers and partners the latest news on the sponsoring vendor’s strategies, solutions, services and business plans. Trade shows, like last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2021) are considerably different creatures.Yes, numerous analysts and reporters travel to CES (more than 6,500 of last...
CES 2021: Dell Spotlights WFH Innovations
Though my work as an industry analyst largely involves business technologies, I’ve made it a point to attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas since I launched Pund-IT in 2005. Why so? Because for the past couple of decades, consumer technology products typically presaged what would arrive in the workplace a year or so later.That was...
Remembering the Lessons of 2020
By any measure, 2020 is a year most would prefer to forget. The uncontrollable spread of the COVID-19 virus and related economic crises slammed places and people in every corner of the globe. Here in the U.S., the federal government’s inept management of pandemic response was nearly overshadowed by what was, by any measure, the weirdest election the country...