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December 4, 2019

Looking to further nudge the data-center crowd into the cloud world, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its long-awaited Outposts hybrid-cloud service this week. Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers. […]

December 4, 2019

Not every company has a vast IT operation. This might involve a data center with business servers, network switches and equipment, storage — and the related IT service management staff needed to run it. Yet, with the emergence of cloud […]

December 3, 2019

Ampere Computing, the semiconductor startup led by former Intel president Renee James that designs Arm-based server processors, is preparing to launch its next-generation CPU by mid-2020. The upcoming chip will have 80 cores, much more than the 32-core processor the […]

December 3, 2019

Let’s face it. We’re painting ourselves into a corner given the number of special-purpose, cloud-native databases we’re placing into production. This without regard to how we should be using those databases in ways that allow for easy access and understanding […]

December 2, 2019

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 […]

November 26, 2019

Accenture has launched a platform that will enable enterprises to simulate various cloud services and architectures to optimize for costs, existing infrastructure and desired business goals before making a vendor decision. The software, called myNav, aims to solve a real […]

November 26, 2019

Do you know what IT will be doing 10 years from now? I can anticipate a few patterns that will remain, but for the most part, we tend to have short attention spans when it comes to technology. Ten years […]

November 25, 2019

IBM (NYSE:IBM), also referred to as Big Blue, has struggled with revenue growth for more than five years. In Oct. 2018, IBM announced its acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion — IBM’s largest acquisition in its 108-year history. And […]

November 20, 2019

IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology […]

November 20, 2019

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 […]