A quick glance around any restaurant, train car, waiting room, or even the sessions and hallways of IBM’s InterConnect conference in Las Vegas makes one thing abundantly evident—mobile phones are everywhere and constantly in use, and not only at play—these devices are also part of daily workflow. Continue Reading ->

IBM’s financial woes continue as the tech giant enters 2015 with further declining revenue numbers. Its fourth-quarter 2014 earnings report is a bleak one, as Big Blue looks to the New Year as one of transformation and minimal gains, but the year is not without some shining moments. Continue Reading ->

Technology has in­fluenced the practice of medicine since machines became widely used in Europe during the 1800s. But each time these revolutionary advances are made, the technology raises the complexity of treatment. Doctors need to understand not only the advances in medicine, but also the application of each new piece of equipment. Continue Reading ->

Cloud computing grabbed the attention of the global enterprise economy in 2014 even more than in years past. Seasoned organizations and startups alike turned to the cloud to not only host their infrastructure and store data, but to also grow their businesses with new applications and services. Continue Reading ->

As the global economy grows, organizations work to find an optimal way to operate with remote locations. Those locations may need to run around the clock. Some may need to collaborate with partners in their industry. This week, IBM announced a new MQ Appliance designed to serve these very needs, supplying clients with a messaging product that is more consumable, faster to deploy, and easier to maintain. Continue Reading ->

The Sharks were circling at IBM InterConnect2015 this week in search of the next big investment. During Tuesday’s keynote, a trio of hopefuls took the main stage to pitch their idea to three of the celebrity investors from the prevalent ABC reality show Shark Tank. Continue Reading ->

Diet and exercise is a simple formula for good health, yet millions of people around the world struggle to find the time, motivation, and the best way to accomplish these two seemingly straightforward tasks. For individuals suffering from diabetes mellitus, a chronic condition associated with abnormally high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood, maintaining these habits is critical for survival. Continue Reading ->

Since launching IBM Bluemix early last year, Big Blue has grown its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and attracted enterprise and startup clients who look to build, manage, and run apps that further business and meet customer needs. In a year of disappointing revenue for the technology giant, IBM’s cloud services ­ flourished in 2014—at the close of Q3, cloud revenue was up more than 50 percent year-to-date and cloud delivered as a service was up 80 percent year-to-date with a third quarter annual run rate of $3.1 billion. Continue Reading ->

Aon Hewitt, the global talent, retirement, and health solutions business of Aon (NYSE: AON), has been in a “make it work” situation with its MQ monitoring and management for over a decade, an approach that could no longer satisfy the performance and security needs for its rapidly growing environment. Continue Reading ->

From the corner office, it’s easy to see how disruptive technologies change the competitive landscape. The latest trends in mobile and big data empower organizations of all sizes to innovate and adapt more than ever before. Continue Reading ->

Sensors are put into our environment every day. These range from fitness wearables to the ones that are embedded in the supply chain to track the movement of goods. These, and applications in healthcare and pharma, add tremendous volumes of data, exacerbating the big data problem for middleware, specifically in terms of controlled, secured, and monitored messaging, says Charley Rich, Vice President of Product Management, Nastel Technologies. Continue Reading ->

For years, CEMEX Chief Technology Officer Gilberto Garcia has searched for an alternative to traditional email. “Email has been the same for years,” he says. Since the early ’90s, CEMEX, a global building materials company, has used IBM Notes for its email correspondence. Four years ago, the company started a social network using IBM Connections. “We like it at lot. We are running Notes 9 and Sametime.” Continue Reading ->

Once hailed as one of the biggest advances in workforce productivity, email is long overdue for an upgrade. Researchers estimate the average corporate email user sends and receives an average of 121 emails a day, or roughly one every four minutes. Continue Reading ->

The road to success for startups and entrepreneurs has always been long and precarious, and in today’s ultra-competitive market, many turn to cloud and mobile technologies to gain an edge. This week, IBM made moves to be the only hand that today’s innovators grab onto for that final leap to the top. Continue Reading ->

IBM’s event strategy has always reached high. Now, with one extravagant show, Big Blue aims to outdo the rest of IT with its grandest show ever. Continue Reading ->

The era of big data is changing the way marketing professionals do their jobs, and even those with a strong set of skills feel angst over what lies ahead. To give CMOs the knowledge they need to use cloud, analytics, mobile, and social technologies to better understand and engage their customers, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will deliver a new program next spring in partnership with IBM. Continue Reading ->

Millions of users post to Twitter each day, leaving trails of data in their wake. This untapped data is a window into what people around the world think about just about any topic at any time, and the ability to analyze and understand this data can change the way business decisions are made. Continue Reading ->

The transformative power of data and analytics was on display at IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas this week. As companies from all over the world shared their stories, Big Blue released a series of announcements on the growth of its big data, analytics, and IBM Watson portfolios. Continue Reading ->

Who has the best chips and salsa in Austin, Texas? To find out the answer to this simple, yet important question, Mike Little, CEO of the newly-launched Byte app, set out on a six month restaurant tour—all the while logging taste, quality, price, and location information on a simple android application he created to store the data. Continue Reading ->

The momentum around IBM Cloud has grown exponentially over the last year with the acquisition of SoftLayer and the launch of its Bluemix platform for application development. Big Blue also touts a 50 percent increase in its cloud revenue this year. Continue Reading ->

Particularly in the mobile market, businesses are under growing pressure to release applications more quickly to satisfy consumer demand, and the ones that invest in new innovation and development capabilities see a rise in revenue, positive brand recognition, and, of course, customer satisfaction. Continue Reading ->

The hunt for a new job is a challenge for just about everyone, regardless of experience or qualifications. But military veterans and spouses face even greater hurdles when searching for employment. Continue Reading ->

Back-to-school shopping is happily over for millions of parents in the United States. But for retailers looking toward the holidays, the season of spending is just getting started and experts are urging them to pay mind to the habits of the today’s consumer. Continue Reading ->

It took only a few months of collaboration before IBM and Apple forged a global partnership around the idea of addressing enterprise mobility challenges through industry-specific solutions. Bringing the expertise of the two firms together, IBM and Apple hope to capture opportunity in the mobile space and create a new market in enterprise mobility. Continue Reading ->

Recording hit singles was once reserved for garage bands and teams of studio musicians, but today, thanks to the one-of-a-kind mobile game, Zya, music making is in the hands of the masses. Continue Reading ->

A mobile telecommunications company in Kuwait wanted to increase the engagement and involvement of its customer base; get feedback on new offerings, promotions, and services; and quickly listen to customer issues. Continue Reading ->

Big Blue has announced four additional services on Bluemix, its platform-as-a-service offering first launched this past February. Continue Reading ->

Virus threats are no longer just a security problem, but a boardroom issue that threatens companies’ bottom lines and impacts revenue. As hackers and viral attacks mature and become more persistent, so does the need for more comprehensive defense strategies. Continue Reading ->

The challenge with storage today is less about hardware or software and more about data. With this in mind, IBM announced this week a new software-defined storage product portfolio designed to reduce customers’ data storage costs, improve their access to data, and significantly cut time to insight. Continue Reading ->

Enterprises around the globe are reinventing the way they do business and interact with their customers through innovation, real-time insights, and a focus on the market. “You have to keep the user at the center of everything you do,” explains Marie Wieck, General Manager, Application and Integration Middleware, IBM Software Group. Continue Reading ->

In this digital economy, enterprises need to utilize mobile and cloud technologies to bring the next set of capabilities to their clients. The key is unbundling and putting together offerings that really handle the next generation of business and business process, says Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, Software and Cloud Solutions, IBM. Continue Reading ->

Companies today struggle to share the increasing volumes of big data files within their enterprises and around the world. Aspera recently announced new products that enhance the way organizations move data to and from the cloud at maximum speeds. Continue Reading ->

Ohio health insurer Medical Mutual wanted to take on more trading partners and more easily align with government protocols, but was without the proper robust and secure infrastructure needed to support the company’s operations. Continue Reading ->

Over the last decade, engineering and manufacturing firm Parker Hannifin Corp. has celebrated tremendous growth, doubling in size from $6 billion in sales to $13 billion. Progress comes with its own set of new challenges, and in the case of Parker Hannifin, a growing enterprise leads to a need for integration among its various applications across the globe to ensure more efficient and customer-oriented operations. Continue Reading ->

Business moves fast, and taking time to make the right purchase decision between solutions can be a difficult process and can slow down even the most efficient enterprise. Continue Reading ->

IBM’s Connections platform has been the growing focus for the company’s social business efforts in the past years, and they hope the recent Mail Next announcement will go a long way in helping organizations transform into more social and connected entities. Continue Reading ->

IBM and AT&T have once again joined forces, but this time they are fulfilling a demand from clients who are looking to streamline network security and threat management. Continue Reading ->

Today’s market is moving faster than ever before, making it more important than ever to be stay ahead of your competitors. “When it comes to new applications, time to market is in incredibly important,” says Adam Kocoloski, Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudant, Inc. “The ability to iterate and respond to the needs of the market is incredibly important. Consuming infrastructure and data layers as a service is a big assist on that front.” Continue Reading ->

SoftLayer was the belle of the ball at IBM’s Pulse conference in Las Vegas this week. IBM acquired the private infrastructure-as-a-service company eight months ago and immediately began picking up momentum around cloud. Continue Reading ->

Protecting data is a top concern for companies that need to stay on top of the technological curve and supply customers with secure service. IBM has announced a powerful appliance for assisting organizations in diagnosing and defending critical data and enterprise networks against cyber attacks. Continue Reading ->

Cloud is changing the way organizations do business, and IBM is making moves to change how organizations bring services to market. “This year, it’s about speed,” says Moe Abdula, VP of SmartCloud Foundation, during Monday’s keynote at IBM’s Pulse conference held in the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. “Speed is really the new currency.” Continue Reading ->

As evident by its previous and most recent earnings reports, IBM continues to face revenue and stock challenges despite growth in profits and building momentum around cloud computing. Continue Reading ->

A growing startup, Green Status Pro’s mission is to simplify the regulatory lives of operations managers. To do this, the company sought the best platform to deliver its software as a service offering. Continue Reading ->

IBM has been working to beef up its MobileFirst offerings since announcing the initiative earlier this year and has celebrated a number of announcements this fall, the latest being the acquisition of Fiberlink Communications. Continue Reading ->

IBM is in a prime position to enhance its mobile marketing initiative, namely cloud-based mobile messaging capabilities, with the acquisition of Xtify Inc. earlier last month. Xtify is a leading provider of cloud-based mobile messaging tools that help businesses and organizations improve mobile sales, drive in-store traffic, and engage customers with personalized offers. Continue Reading ->