IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and is displaying them on its Cloud online marketplace from Monday.
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IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and is displaying them on its Cloud online marketplace from Monday.
Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM’s profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.
Fifty years ago on April 7, IBM announced the computer that the task force had designed, the System/360.
Fifty years ago, IBM announced the mainframe computer that its task force had designed – the System/360.
According to a new IBM study, 82 percent of CFOs see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task.
IBM will house its email, communication and collaboration products in its Connections suite, whose scope until now has been limited to enterprise social networking software.
The updated version has been enhanced with new features that support more branches, bigger data sets, and additional enterprise-class storage solutions, including IBM Storwize V7000.
IBM has revived efforts to sell its low-end server business and Dell, Fujitsu and Lenovo are all lining up to take a look, according to reports this week.
IBM plans to invest more than $1.2 billion to grow its global cloud footprint significantly and has additional centres planned for the Middle East region by 2015.
Facebook is worth £1.21 billion more than Malaysia and IBM is valued at £1.81 billion more than Mexico, according to research released today by Bank of America Merill Lynch.
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