AI
GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …
Red Hat
Compute
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. …
AI
Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons
A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises. …
Control
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
Compute
Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession
Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
Control
HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business
It is hard to make a living in the open source software business, although it is possible, through the contributions of many, to make great software. …
Code
Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?
Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …
Cloud
Compute
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking
If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …
Compute
Systems Turn In A Good Year for Big Blue
You can’t turn back the hands of time, but if you are lucky enough in business, you can continue to find some modicum of relevance that outlasts your initial success and even adapt to new conditions as they inevitably and often unexpectedly change. …