Business transformation September 8, 2022

What keeps a CIO up at night?

4 min read - What keeps a chief information officer (CIO) up at night? Fear of the unknown. Today’s CIOs and other digital professionals run complex businesses that connect to other businesses in new ways. This makes the CIO a key partner in the…

Cloud September 13, 2021

Weaving the data fabric through IBM Global Financing

3 min read - When your IT infrastructure suffers an outage, the last thing you want is high visibility and—even worse—revenue loss. But that’s exactly what happened to IBM in 2017. An aging and disparate internal IT ecosystem that had been starved of investment…

Artificial intelligence May 17, 2021

Innovations in IT infrastructure at Think 2021

2 min read - Last week, some of the most paradigm-shifting innovations in IT were on display at IBM Think 2021.

Cloud October 13, 2020

What you need to know about hybrid cloud data strategies

3 min read - I decided to try to tackle some of the challenges a company would face when creating a strategy around their data.

Uncategorized September 28, 2020

Five key things to know about IBM Garage for Systems

3 min read - What if you had access to experts who specialize in the IT solutions you were considering for your business?

Cloud August 11, 2020

Comparing enterprise data warehouses across five architectural layers

5 min read - In two previous blogs, we analyzed the total value of ownership (TVO) for enterprise data warehouses (EDW) based on information gleaned from a recent Cabot Partners analyst report. Predictably, many highlights of the TVO assessment cover the most significant EDW…

Cloud June 9, 2020

Save on infrastructure and operational costs with IBM Cloud Pak for Data

3 min read - Modern Data and AI application deployments are expanding through open source containers and hybrid multi-cloud support, but how can you achieve the benefits of infrastructure optimization and unified operationalization without vendor lock-in? In this era of increasing AI/ML workloads and…

Security November 5, 2019

Blockchain for trusted security labels

5 min read - Blockchain They can also audit policies that enable information of different classifications and access categories to be stored, accessed, and processed on shared storage, compute, and networking infrastructure while simultaneously assuring the data and other resource objects are only accessed…

Analytics February 12, 2019

How to modernize the mainframe in a fast-changing banking industry

3 min read - At Fiducia & Gad IT AG, our job is to keep IT systems up to date for all 1,100 cooperative banks in Germany. It’s a bit of a straddling act—between old and new, established and innovative, the past and the…

Business transformation April 12, 2018

5 key reasons to opt for hyperconverged infrastructure

3 min read - Let’s face it—traditional design for data center infrastructure doesn’t always meet today’s needs. Analytics, transaction processing, high-volume web serving and other data-intensive and mission-critical workloads place new and increased demands on the IT infrastructure. At the same time, specialized IT…