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IBM Receives Cloud Company of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan
Award highlights IBM’s ability to deliver a complete set of cloud services enabling customers to build out their hybrid cloud environments ARMONK, N.Y. - 20 Oct 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it has received the 2016 Cloud Company of the Year Award from...

IBM Cloud Expands Bluemix Ecosystem in China to Fuel Blockchain and IoT Innovation
• Through a Collaboration with 21Vianet, IBM Provides Advanced Cloud Services to China’s Developers, Helping Bring Transformative IoT Platform, IoT Services and Blockchain to China • Cisco and IBM Expand Partnership to Bring Cloud and IoT Insights to Remote Chinese...

Breaking the archive ceiling
Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Industry best practice states that your organization needs to include provisions for deleting archive data as part of your data retention policy. Legacy data consumes valuable resources adding to the cost of keeping the lights on....

Computer data storage – what’s next?
Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 in Storage, Storage Hardware Disk storage may be reaching a density of multiple terabytes per square inch, but the demand for increased capacity means that even that will not be enough. So while some R&D efforts are focused on...

Architecture of a Typical Telecom OSS System
This white paper describes the architecture of a typical OSS system, including an overview of the comprehensive domain model, scenarios, details of technologies and features of the software. Typical Telecom OSS Systems Architecture.pdf

The Insurance Industry Dilemma
The Insurance Industry is facing disruption to a great extent; most of the drifts in the Insurance Industry are either technology-related or have technology as one of the forces for change in the environment. Gone are the days when the conventional functioning of...

It Was All About the Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld 2016
David Eichorn on October 10, 2016 This year’s Oracle OpenWorld focused heavily on promoting Oracle’s position on the Cloud. Oracle looks to be squarely focused on gaining share from AWS and there appeared to be little mention of Azure at the show. Outside of the...

Crestmark Helps U.S. Manufacturers
The U.S. manufacturing sector represents 30 percent of Crestmark’s clients, according to Dave Tull, Crestmark founder and CEO. In Crestmark’s 20-year history, it has provided financing to scores of American manufacturing companies – often those that could not get...

Tech Leaders Unite to Enable New Cloud Datacenter Server Designs for Big Data, Machine Learning, Analytics, and other Emerging Workloads
- AMD, Dell EMC, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Mellanox Technologies, Micron, NVIDIA and Xilinx Launch OpenCAPI Consortium and Immediately Release New Specification Enabling Up to 10X Faster Server Performance - OpenCAPI Products Expected in Second Half of...

IBM Redefines Security, Availability and Economics of Storing Data in the Hybrid Cloud
- Company delivers new IBM Cloud Object Storage service, industry’s first object storage service for hybrid clouds; - New service rewrites the economics of object storage – demonstrating more than 25% lower cost over a leading vendor for the compared environments,...