Salesforce and IBM are integrating Work.com and Digital Health Pass
IBM and Salesforce are planning to integrate Work.com and IBM Digital Health Pass. The companies aim to help workers verify their health status when at work and in public spaces. The work-from-home arrangements are taking on a more hybrid style of operation, with more employees returning to their o... Read more
Malicious mobile emulator farms are robbing US and EU banks
IBM Trusteer researchers have uncovered an extensive fraud operation unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. In simpler terms, it is the nightmare of automated fraud. A network of mobile device emulators was used to steal millions of dollars from bank accounts in just a few days.
The scale ... Read more
IBM is cutting 10,000 employees from its European services unit
IBM plans to cut 10,000 jobs from its European services unit to minimize costs before they spin off the division in 2021, according to Bloomberg report released today. The job cuts will affect about 20% of IBM staff in the region, with offices in the U.K. and Germany facing the biggest cuts. Office... Read more
Tanium announces IBM collaboration
Security company Tanium has announced a collaboration with IBM. The companies will jointly introduce a security package for the hybrid cloud.
The two companies are working on a service that ensures the security and compliance of workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The service is particularly... Read more
IBM plans to acquire app monitoring startup Instana
IBM announced that it is planning to acquire the Chicago-based application monitoring startup, Instana. The startup has raised more than $50 million from investors like Meritech Capital Partners and Accel.
No terms of the deal have been disclosed. Instana’s platform is named after the company ... Read more
AMD and IBM work together on hybrid cloud and confidential computing
IBM and AMD have entered into an agreement that will see the two companies work together on open-source software, security, artificial intelligence workloads, high-performance computing and confidential computing.
The collaboration between AMD and IBM is likely to cement AMD's place in hybrid c... Read more
IBM adds AI features to Cloud Pak offerings
IBM has announced some new updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation. The updates mainly consist of AI features that are supposed to take some tasks out of the hands of users.
In a press release, IBM has made an overview of the new features. The most important highlights can be ... Read more
Alibaba now in 4th place ahead of IBM in cloud infrastructure
Alibaba made its foray into the cloud infrastructure market in 2015, with ambitions to become one of the biggest. Now, the company announced that it had quarterly revenue of $2.194 billion. That number shows it has surpassed IBM, which had about $1.65 billion in revenue.
$2 billion is a large fi... Read more
IBM launches Red Hat cloud platform for 5G with Nokia and Samsung
IBM became the latest U.S. tech company to launch a cloud platform for 5G telecom operators. The company signed up Samsung and Nokia as partners. A cloud platform leverages the 5G network by setting up software instead of physical equipment to propagate the network.
The telecom operators will bu... Read more
Red Hat is shifting toward containers in a big way
IBM's Spectrum storage products are now moving towards Red Hat, the company it acquired last year. IBM Storage unveiled a storage software family for Red Had OpenShift (ROHS.) The company also said that it intends to deliver software-defined, container-native storage solutions for ROHS and Kubernet... Read more