Strong performance by Red Hat is good news for IBM shareholders, making IBM a more competitive player in the Hybrid IT space and significantly increasing the company’s ability to deliver open source software to enterprise in both hybrid and multi-cloud environments. I expect the acquisition to improve IBM’s status. While the price was steep, the company’s ability to grab both market share and the Red Hat community will likely both accelerate revenue and brand equity. All in all, I believe this was smart buy that I think will prove out over the next four quarters following the close of the acquisition.
Fast-Growing Startup in the SIEM Space No Real Threat to Splunk, IBM
Exabeam, a fast-growing startup in the SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) space is no real threat to Splunk, IBM. Here’s why.
Call for Code 2019: Are You The Next Project Owl?
IBM’s Call for Code 2019 is an open event that challenges coders around the world to create sustainable solutions that help communities prepare for, respond to, or recover from natural disasters.
Top 5 Business Struggles of Adopting Automated Workflows
These days, if you’re not automating at least something in your business workflow, you’re likely lagging behind. Still, despite its miracle-worker ability to save both money and time in pretty much every industry, many companies have struggled to experience maximum positive results. It turns out the only downside to automation is that its adoption itself can’t be automated. It needs …
Removing the Silos in the C-Suite
Silos—they’re the cockroaches of legacy organizations and pre-digital business mindset. Siloed departments can be an impediment to efficiency, culture, and even a company’s overall mission, especially in the high-speed digital age. But while many of us have embraced the concept of trying to break down those silos in our companies, we haven’t quite figured out how to break them down …
Continued Evolution of Enterprise Mobility
A few months ago, I discussed how enterprise mobility is part of the modern business evolution. Revolution might be more like it. In 2016, we saw record numbers of companies changing how they function in the new mobile environment—increasingly working from mobile-only apps and providing only mobile devices to new employees. As the technology grows and expands, it has the …
Virtualization Security: The Line of Defense Your Cloud Needs
It used to be that companies used Clouds merely to back up their physical systems. Now, as many businesses are increasingly adopting Clouds and virtual machines (VMs) as an alternative to their physical infrastructure, the question remains: How to keep their virtual data, software, and systems secure? Just as technology is changing how and where we work, it is also …
Overcoming Hurdles of Data Usage
Big Data is many things, but easy is not one of them. While companies the world over have raced to jump aboard the Big Data train, few have seen tangible results from their efforts. A recent Experian report showed that although 95 percent of CIOs believe data is changing how their organizations are doing business, nearly two-thirds of those also …
Mobile’s Impact on “Human to Human” Communication w/ @BryanKramer #SMACtalk Ep 27
Brian and Dan welcome special guest co-host Bryan Kramer, CEO of PureMatter Social Agency and author of “Human to Human: #H2H” as they discuss the mobile impact on the concept of “Human to Human” in business relationships and social marketing. Listen to SMACtalk on iTunes here! In this episode, Brian and Daniel along with guest co-host Bryan Kramer get into …
When Big Data Causes Big Problems #SMACtalk Ep 26
We all know that Big Data is a hot topic. As businesses and consumers we are constantly witnessing how data can be used to better understand our customers, our operations and of course our own buying behavior. However, big data in all of its glory isn’t always so perfect. What happens when we let data become a mere support structure …