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IBM misses revenue target but says steady growth will resume this year
IBM Corp. beat analysts’ expectations today with fourth-quarter earnings of $2.07 per share, 28 cents better than the $1.79 that was expected, but growth continues to be elusive. Revenue fell 6.5% from the same quarter last year, to $20.37 billion, about 1.3% below...
Solving the CIO dilemma: How to keep pace and control spend under new pressures
A chief information officer is responsible for meeting the information technology needs of an organization and driving value from said technology. Once an underappreciated fix-it role, today’s demand for technological solutions has put mission-critical operations...
The era of the citizen developer is dawning, says Google Cloud’s Amit Zavery
Interest in low-code no-code application development continues to grow, and major enterprise companies are positioning for a central role in what is turning into a promising business. Gartner has predicted that in two years, more than 50% of medium-sized to large...
Companies: Lead us to the cloud, then get out of the way
What is the perfect cloud strategy? Decades after cloud computing entered the business lexicon, enterprises are still a long way from agreeing on a definitive model. The evolving workplace, proliferation of edge devices, and increasing complexity of hybrid and...
It’s time for a data architecture do-over
As Moore’s Law becomes less relevant, technological innovation is entering a new age. Instead of ever tinier and more powerful computing hardware, the next wave of value creation will come from the mixing of big data, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and...
CIOs face new challenges as cloud adoption becomes a critical imperative
2020 took cloud operations from a business advantage to a business imperative, and that has propelled chief information officers into the spotlight, as chief executive officers look to implement cloud strategies ASAP. Fueling the increased importance of the role is...
Time to take aim at storage and edge by expanding block capabilities to network protocols
It’s high time to re-engineer the storage stack to enable storage area network or SAN performance in the cloud, a growing trend reflecting what information technology departments could expect on-premises. This represents an important move worth watching as it signals...
Raspberry Pi Foundation debuts $4 Arm-based Pico chip
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today detailed an internally developed microcontroller chip for “internet of things” projects that will become available to customers starting at a mere $4. Dubbed Pico, the chip will also ship as part of partner-made circuit boards that...
By leveraging joint data assets, cloud-linked ecosystems bridge experience gap, create agile value chain
Cloud computing is transforming not only business but the role of chief information officers. From fighting the endless battle of keeping the lights on, CIOs and their counterparts in other information technology executive roles have been elevated to rank among the...