View Post

LinuxONE Stripped Naked in the IBM Cloud

In Cloud by Steven DickensLeave a Comment

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IBM Cloud. With hybrid cloud becoming the prevailing deployment architecture for many enterprises, IBM is leaning into providing LinuxONE as-a-service on the IBM cloud.

View Post

Temenos and Zafin Availability on IBM Financial Services Cloud Platform Shows Banking-aaS Technology Stack Starts to Gain Traction

In Cloud by Steven DickensLeave a Comment

Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements this week by banking software and SaaS vendors Temenos and Zafin as they look to partner with IBM Cloud. Banks have unique regulatory, security, and transactional requirements and industry-focused cloud offerings are being developed by hyperscale public cloud vendors to service these unique requirements and software vendors play a key role in driving adoption.

View Post

IBM Launches New Telum Processor

In AI by Daniel NewmanLeave a Comment

IBM announces the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor. Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing. Futurum’s Daniel Newman discusses this new on-chip hardware acceleration. It’s designed to help customers achieve business insights at scale across banking, finance, trading, insurance applications and customer interactions.

View Post

IBM to Acquire BoxBoat, Doubles Down on Hybrid Cloud Services

In Cloud by Steven DickensLeave a Comment

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his insight on news coming out of IBM yesterday on the acquisition of Kubernetes and container focused services business BoxBoat. This acquisition, although not significant in revenue terms, clearly shows IBM’s strategic intent to build a hybrid cloud focused services business post spinoff of Kyndryl.

View Post

IBM Think 2021 Zeros in on AI, Hybrid Cloud and Ecosystem Growth

In Cloud by Daniel NewmanLeave a Comment

This year’s IBM Think 2021 event focused on artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud and also on ecosystem growth. Overall, I believe IBM effectively utilized Think 2021 to clearly articulate its Hybrid Cloud and AI strategy, along with the key strategic moves the company is making in ecosystem partnerships, M&A, and portfolio management under Arvind’s leadership.