5 reasons to be a happy mainframe customer despite some issues to be resolved
As IBM celebrates the Mainframe at 50 and announces a raft of new products, there is a lot for existing IBM mainframe customers to be happy about, irrespective of what mainframe they have. Some of the...
View ArticleIBM continues to get SaaSy with analytics and marketing
Silverpop, a provider of digital marketing products, is to be acquired by IBM. This adds to IBM’s growing list of Software as a Service products that stands at more than 100. The offering will be...
View ArticleMobile and Social: The art of the possible in five steps
It is April 2014, and we are entering a new era of unbounded connectedness. The UK has just experienced its first ‘mobile Christmas’ and, in the US, monthly mobile internet traffic has just overtaken...
View ArticleIBM Impact 2014: New products. New Look. New IBM?
The evolution of IBM continued at this year’s Impact conference in Las Vegas. Over 9,000 IBMers, customers, business partners and others packed the Venetian’s conference centre to hear a number of key...
View ArticleTwilio and IBM bridge the gap from both sides
Much has been written recently about the ‘two cultures’ in software development, with fast-moving, mass market developers pitched against old-school enterprise types. Now Twilio and IBM have come...
View ArticleSalesforce1 comes to London
Thursday 22 May saw the Salesforce World Tour stop in London at the ExCeL Centre. The tour is an opportunity to bring the big announcements from Salesforce’s annual conference Dreamforce to local...
View ArticleIBM challenges Intel dominance with POWER8 release: what’s in it for the market?
For two decades, IBM’s POWER computing division has occupied that space between System x and System z which was traditionally occupied by the mini-computer. Over the last two years, IBM has been...
View Article‘Intrapreneurship’ at Barclays: a blueprint for mobile innovation
The mobile revolution is well and truly underway and many enterprises are facing the challenge of how to adapt to avoid losing out to competitors – both large and small – that are quicker off the mark....
View ArticleWhy developers should embrace the cloud, a discussion with Darren Smith from...
In the latest of our series of podcasts with developer evangelists from leading vendors I spoke with Darren Smith from Salesforce.com. In these podcasts we look at 3 trends that each vendor is seeing...
View ArticleStop Press: Why developers are not masters of the universe
I recently read on TechRepublic’s UK website the article “Developers are turning the public cloud into a massive piggybank” by Matt Asay and found myself at severe odds with the thrust of his argument...
View ArticleCompuware APM: The challenge of being ahead of the customer
Compuware has undergone a transformation in recent months, some of which has been covered in my colleague Bola Rotibi’s January 2014 blog “Out with the old and in with the new: Compuware 2.0 no more”....
View ArticleBoxWorks 2014 and how tomorrow works: It’s the platform, stupid
The BoxWorks 2014 conference in San Francisco on 3rd September was Box’s fourth annual event and CIC’s first time in attendance. From the impression generated one would be forgiven for thinking that...
View ArticleLinux vendors trying to stay relevant in a mobile world
It was recently announced that Red Hat is to acquire Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) FeedHenry. FeedHenry is a small company founded in 2010 that took Series A funding of $9m just last...
View ArticleIBM MobileFirst 2014 Update: Apple joins the party
We have been following IBM MobileFirst since its inception in 2013 and conducted an evaluation of the IBM Worklight platform in the latter half of 2013 (get access to the report here). Over that short...
View ArticleIBM Watson accelerates medical research
A few weeks ago, I was at the IBM Systems and Technology Group Analyst Insights conference in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. This is IBM’s annual opportunity to lay out where it sees the future for STG....
View ArticleIBM returning to its roots with sale of x86 division to Lenovo complete
Back on 8th September 2014, I attended the IBM Systems and Technology Group Analyst Insights conference in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. This is IBM’s annual opportunity to lay out where it sees the...
View ArticleCloud Wars: Microsoft and IBM gang up to steal Amazon’s lunch money…and...
The arms race amongst the big cloud vendors continues this week with announcements from Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Microsoft, who is showing love to everyone these days, has a new relationship with IBM...
View ArticleAdobe MAX 2014: The focus is on designers but the big winner might be developers
Adobe MAX 2014 marked the second year as the reinvented “Creativity Conference” aimed at designers. This has been a significant shift in what was historically a developer conference. However it is also...
View ArticleDreamforce 2014: Substance behind the celebrity
Once you get past the interviews with Hilary Clinton, Will.i.am, Al Gore, The Beach Boys and Bruno Mars, you realise there was a tech conference in San Francisco. The Salesforce annual show (more...
View ArticleCIC Security Briefing Note: Without the right help, the CISO will not secure...
Regular surveys of C-Suite executives around the world consistently show that information security is among their top three concerns. This is hardly surprising. The rising tide of compliance and...
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