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Cloud database vendors lambasted by analyst for expense vulnerable products and poor support

December 2, 2020

Gartner takes AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and more to task in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for cloud database management systems Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant for cloud database management systems (DBMS) lays out the flaws of the leading players in a rapidly growing market. The analyst firm defines the cloud DBMS market as being "for products from vendors that supply fully prov

IBM AWS and Red Hat offer an open source hand to help enterprise into the cloud

November 28, 2020

It’s never a good idea to reinvent the wheel. So why do companies try and take on cloud transformation alone? There’s a wealth of experience in the open software ecosystem; and the community is eager to assist companies on their cloud journey, preventing newbies from making easily avoidable errors. “People want to tap into innovation, [] The post IBM, AWS and Red Hat offer an open (source) hand to

2020 - the year that Dreamforce came to you and Benioff made the best of it

November 22, 2020

2020 - the year that Dreamforce came to you and Benioff made the best of it Stuart Lauchlan Wed, 12/02/2020 - 16:16 Summary: Not the Dreamforce he wanted, but the Dreamforce we all got - Marc Benioff hosts a virtual version of Salesforce’s biggest customer event of the year.

Newly Launched Bitcoin Latinum set to Become Worlds Largest Insured Digital Asset

November 4, 2020

Bitcoin Latinum, the next-generation Bitcoin fork capable of massive transaction volume, digital asset management, cyber security, and capacity is announcing its official pre-sale launch. Bitcoin Latinum will trade under the symbol LTNM with a total supply of 888,888,888 LTNM [verifiable by LTNM].{loadads} Bitcoin Latinum is now available for pre-sale on www.bitcoinlatinum.com and will be availabl

To battle Red Hat SUSE completes its acquisition of Rancher Labs

November 2, 2020

Open-source enterprise software giant SUSE Group today said it has completed the acquisition of Kubernetes management startup Rancher Labs Inc. The deal should put SUSE in a better position to take on rival IBM Corp.’s Red Hat in the fast-growing Kubernetes market, and it may also help it on its way toward its goal of doubling its [] The post To battle Red Hat, SUSE completes its acquisition of Ra

IBM Cloud gets quantum-resistant cryptography

October 27, 2020

IBM Corp. is looking to make enterprise workloads deployed on its public cloud resistant to tomorrow’s encryption-breaking quantum computers. As a first step to that end, the company today introduced “quantum-safe cryptography” capabilities for three services in IBM Cloud: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, Cloud Kubernetes Service and Key Protect. Customers using the services [] The post IBM Cloud

Enterprise hits and misses - Microsoft 365 raises a work surveillance debate and no one can accuse Salesforce of Slacking off

October 24, 2020

Enterprise hits and misses - Microsoft 365 raises a work surveillance debate, and no one can accuse Salesforce of Slacking off Jon Reed Sun, 11/29/2020 - 21:52 Summary: This week - Microsoft 365 provokes a work surveillance debate when new functionality details hit social media. Rumors have Salesforce taking a hard look at Slack - but why? Retailers hit the holiday home stretch,

IBM Planning 10000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale

October 12, 2020

Legacy IT services business, whose day-to-day operations include managing client data centers, will be hit hardest.

Podcast Episode: Control Over Users Competitors and Critics

October 7, 2020

Episode 004 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Cory Doctorow joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how large, established tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook can block interoperability in order to squelch competition and control their users, and how we can fix this by taking away big companies' legal right to block new tools that connect to their platforms – tools

IBM Power9 processors beset by Cardiac Osprey data-leaking flaw as Spectre still haunts speculative chips

September 22, 2020

Patch if you can: Fix available Updated IBM Power9 processors, intended for data centers and mainframes, are potentially vulnerable to abuse of their speculative execution capability. The security shortcoming could allow a local user to access privileged information.…

IBM acquires cloud app monitoring service Instana

September 16, 2020

IBM has said it has reached an agreement to acquire cloud application management startup Instana for an undisclosed sum. The Chicago-based company’s main product is a service that can monitor the performance of complex cloud applications over both public and private environments, on-premise and mobile devices. It has an ‘observability platform’ that can analyse cloud applications to both prevent a

Kaloom Commits to Join IBM Cloud for Telecommunications Ecosystem

September 11, 2020

MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–KaloomTM today announced it has committed to join IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) ecosystem of partners supporting the new IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. The IBM Cloud for Telecommunications is an open, hybrid cloud architecture designed to accelerate business transformation with the power of edge and 5G and address the unique requirements of operators, partner ecosystems and their

Sysdig and IBM Embed Sysdig Secure for Container Security

September 3, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sysdig announced global availability of Sysdig Secure embedded within IBM Cloud to provide end-to-end Kubernetes and container monitoring and security

Red Hat pushes hybrid cloud to the edge

August 29, 2020

Red Hat has unveiled new edge capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The firm has also expanded the number of supported environments for Red Hat OpenShift, including leading public clouds and multiple datacenter architectures, like IBM Z and Power Systems. At this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Red Hat launched several edge-focused updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the rapid cre

Log-On Wave for IBM Z simplifies highly virtualized environments

August 26, 2020

IBM business partner Log-On Software has announced Log-On Wave for IBM Z to simplify and accelerate the management and daily administration of highly virtualized Linux server environments on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. “IBM Z and IBM LinuxOne are powerful, reliable and economical platforms for highly virtualized Linux environments. Significant z/VM skills are required to monitor, manage, and provision

Harry Rosen brings its personalized in-store experience online

August 20, 2020

Can a high-end retailer offer a digital customer experience that matches the personalized service it’s known for in-store? Can a decades-old company undergo digital transformation and stay true to who they are? Harry Rosen did just that, with the help of IBM Cloud and Kubernetes. Founded in 1954, the high-end Canadian men’s clothing retailer is The post Harry Rosen brings its personalized in-store

How DWP managed a surge in demand for Universal Credit during COVID-19

August 20, 2020

How DWP managed a surge in demand for Universal Credit during COVID-19 Derek du Preez Fri, 11/13/2020 - 01:08 Summary: The reformed working-age benefits system, Universal Credit, has been being rolled out for a number of years - but faced an unprecedented test when COVID-19 hit.

IBM and AMD partner on AI and confidential computing

August 16, 2020

IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement which aims to strengthen and expand the security and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings of the two tech giants. The partnership will work on extending open source software, open standards, and open system architectures in order to drive confidential computing within hybrid cloud environments. The project also aims to support a

IBM grows automation data features for hybrid cloud control

August 11, 2020

IBM has continued enhancing its core Cloud Pak hybrid cloud software offerings, this week bolstering automation and data features.

IBM and AMD to Advance Confidential Computing

August 6, 2020

Earlier this year, we wrote a news segment about AMD and Googles announcement about bringing confidential virtual machines to the cloud using features enabled through 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. At the time, AMD and Google marketed the announcement as the first commercially available cloud confidential VMs, powered through AMDs Secure Encryption Virtualization feature. After writing up the news,

IBM grows automation data features for hybrid cloud control

August 6, 2020

IBM continued enhancing its core Cloud Pak hybrid cloud software offerings, this week bolstering automation and data features that will let customers simplify everything from software provisioning and patching, to data discovery and document processing.IBM Cloud Paks are bundles of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform along with Red Hat Linux and a variety of connecting technolo

Deep as chips: the new microprocessors powering AI

August 4, 2020

The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is upscaling many standard types of IT workload as well as powering new services driven by advanced algorithmic data processing and machine learning techniques. Developers of AI systems, however, have been somewhat constrained by the limitations of standard microprocessors. Pioneering AI applications needed supercomputer-class compute resources in or