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TPM Myths – Defined Hardware Lifespans
Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 in Third Party Maintenance Any organization keen to cut costs and gain access to improved support provisions may have considered third party maintenance (TPM) services. Unfortunately fear, uncertainty and doubt cause many businesses...
IBM Launches New Initiatives to Advance Developer Skills and Careers for the Cognitive Era
Bangalore, India - 17 Jun 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched new global programs and tools designed to propel developers’ skills and advance their careers around cloud and emerging technologies, such as cognitive and IoT. These initiatives include collaborations...
VMware and IBM Expand Global Cloud Partnership with Desktop Services
VMware Horizon Air gives customers access to cloud-hosted desktops and applications in a security-rich environment via the IBM Cloud Armonk, NY and PALO ALTO, Calif. - 14 Jun 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), today announced they are continuing to...
IBM to Offer Apple Pay on the Web to Commerce Clients
12,000 Online Web Storefronts Will be Ready to Deliver Consumers a More Secure, Private and Faster Way to Make Purchases ARMONK, N.Y. - 13 Jun 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will offer Apple Pay on the web to its online clients, bringing their customers...
Post warranty hardware lessons from the Pentagon
It’s easy to believe that a progressive organization would use only cutting edge technologies wherever possible, and that older hardware should never be used for mission critical applications. So new revelations from the Pentagon may come as something of a surprise....
What really is OmniChannel Commerce?
I was recently reading a post shared on twitter and it felt like Omni channel was being used for everything eCommerce. Omni channel is considerably a popular buzzword in the retail & ecommerce game. But it gets thrown out too often than it should be....
IBM Unveils Two New IBM Studios to Create Innovative Digital Experiences in Asia
New Studios in Seoul and Singapore join network of over 30 IBM Studios globally ARMONK, N.Y. - 09 Jun 2016: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the opening of IBM Studios in Singapore and Seoul, Korea to support digital reinvention for clients in Asia. With these Studios,...
IBM Launches Industry’s First Development Environment for Apache Spark – Delivered in the Cloud for Rapid Adoption
IBM Cloud becomes hub to help Data Scientists analyze big data quickly and simply using Apache Spark SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 07 Jun 2016: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the first cloud-based development environment for near real-time, high performance analytics, giving...
The four major factors in cascade-down IT replacement programs
Here at CDS we strongly advocate the redeployment of post warranty hardware to raise the overall standard of our clients’ computing environments, and although this is the perfect resolution to the problem of reduced performance in legacy hardware for most businesses,...
SSD drives are super unreliable – or are they?
A recent study published by IT Pro Portal has been gaining a large amount of attention, due to the headline claim that SSD drives are far less reliable than traditional spinning disks. At a time when many enterprises are rolling out SSD replacement and upgrade...