Cloud in 2020: The year of edge, automation and industry-specific clouds
It was a banner year for cloud computing in 2019. The area that gained the most ground was hybrid multicloud, which emerged as the favored strategy of enterprises looking for a flexible and efficient way to move their workloads to the cloud while reducing costs, boosting productivity and avoiding vendor lock-in. Those advantages are so […]
Multicloud management: Why visibility, security and automation matter to CIOs
As a C-level or line of business executive, there’s a lot that can keep you up at night. While it’s critical that you invest in new technology to keep up with your competition, you don’t want to risk a gap in security or lose out on your current investments — whether it’s your technology, your […]
5 steps to prime your business for AI
Artificial intelligence (AI), when integrated correctly, enables organizations to learn and then act on information—powering businesses to make predictions, automate processes and optimize logistics. Although AI has the potential to add almost $16T to the global economy by 2030, 81 percent of business leaders do not understand the data and infrastructure required for AI. Businesses […]
SteelHouse cuts application deployment time in half with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
People who are shopping, researching, or doing anything at all online don’t want to be held up by a website that takes a long time to load. And, ads are one of the most common reasons for poor website performance. SteelHouse uses the IBM Cloud to ensure a good user experience, which for the advertising […]
Cloud modernization: Cultural and workplace adoption
Genuine digital transformation requires cloud modernization strategies that involve and affect people, processes and technology. In part one of this two-part series, I focused on cloud-based technologies that enable organizations to modernize infrastructures, platforms and applications. This time around, I’ll examine the people aspect of cloud modernization and include some thoughts on process. I’ll cover: […]
Lessons learned: How IBM Global Financing tackles application modernization with Red Hat OpenShift
IBM is like many of its clients when it comes to application modernization. The company faces the same challenges of trying to balance preserving the business value of established investments while remaining agile enough to respond to changing market demands. Within IBM Global Financing, the financing arm that provides leases and loans to IBM clients […]
Modernization and cloud innovation lead to cultural shift at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is one of the largest health insurance providers in the state of Massachusetts. In the Enterprise Technology Organization, we run mission-critical applications 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and process extremely large transaction volumes related to healthcare claims and enrollment. To put this in perspective, we processed […]
Improve business performance with better cloud container monitoring
Today’s hybrid multicloud reality can be a double-edged sword. While the transformation can increase speed, scale and flexibility, it can also limit your view of performance and security within containers. In fact, an IBM and McKinsey research report notes that 67 percent of those surveyed consider management consistency a priority concern. Imagine transferring materials to […]
ExxonMobil and IBM Cloud fuel customer satisfaction at the pump
As digital technology has dramatically transformed how people live, it has also reshaped how consumers experience brands, turning transactions into experiences, and experiences into relationships. But digital transformation is more than simply building an app and going digital. It’s also about changing the way people think. Many people can remember having to go to the […]
Cloud innovation enhances fan experience
Hate standing in queues? Me too. In fact, I’ll avoid them even if there’s no alternative. This is how Nicco was born. I was at a sports bar, and the queue for drinks was so long that I refused to get in line. Over three hours, I had one drink and one snack and walked […]
5 key elements for a successful cloud migration
As organizations continue to increase their cloud investment to drive business forward, cloud adoption has become integral to IT optimization. Cloud migration allows businesses to be more agile, improve inefficiencies and provide better customer experiences. Today, the need for stability and flexibility has never been more necessary. An optimized IT infrastructure is different for each […]
Expedite innovation by design with IBM Garage
Disruption across all industries has made rapid innovation an existential imperative. IBM Garage is a consultancy within IBM that co-creates with clients across industries to enable them on a new way of working and delivering innovative solutions rapidly. By integrating design throughout the solution lifecycle, IBM Garage drives a laser focus on defining and delivering […]