IBM LinuxONE – Taking a Longer View
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 17, 2015 Linux saved IBM’s life in the 1990s. Though the company is in far different and better shape now than it was then, recent developments including the new...
View ArticleDell & Google Polish Chromebooks for the Workplace
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 19, 2015 Last week, Dell and Google together announced the Dell Chromebook 13, which the companies described as a “professional” Chromebook designed for the...
View ArticleLenovo and StorMagic Offer Hyperconverged Solutions for ROBO/Small Biz
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 19, 2015 Lenovo and StorMagic announced new low-cost hyperconverged solutions designed for remote office/branch office (ROBO) markets and small businesses. The...
View ArticleIDF 2015 – Making Innovation Personal
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 19, 2915 I’m at the annual Intel Developers Forum (IDF15) in San Francisco this week, and while I plan to cover a couple of issues in detail in the next Review, I...
View ArticleEMC Configures VNXe for SMBs and ROBOs
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 26, 2015 For decades, businesses have been the beneficiaries of what might be called “trickle-down enterprise innovation” where technologies and solutions...
View ArticleIntel Launches 14nm 6th Gen Core Processors
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 2, 2015 Intel introduced the 6th generation of its Core processor family which the company described as its best microprocessors ever. According to Intel, the...
View ArticleEMC Federation Announces Updated/New Hybrid Cloud Solutions
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 2, 2015 At VMworld, EMC previewed updates to its Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution and announced a new Federation End-User Computing solution. Both...
View ArticleVCE Launches VxRack Solutions for VMware EVO SDDC
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 2, 2015 VCE announced that it has expanded its innovative hyper-converged rackscale systems family, VCE VxRack, with a new personality based on VMware’s EVO...
View ArticleVMworld 2015 and the Road to the SDDC
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 9, 2015 When you attend the number of annual IT vendor and industry conferences that I do, most seem cut from similar strategy/partner/customer cloth. But...
View ArticleAbove/Below the Surface: Dell and Microsoft’s Latest Partnership
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 9, 2015 There are all kinds of IT industry partnerships, from the shallowly ornamental to the deeply strategic. But the best of the lot occur among vendors who...
View ArticleiPad Pro – Why Apple’s Business Market Gambit Will Fail
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 16, 2015 Under the leadership of CEO Tim Cook, Apple has been enormously successful and enormously predictable, qualities that were clearly displayed in last...
View ArticleRevisiting VMworld 2015 – 1:1 Briefings
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 23, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, I published some general thoughts on the recent VMworld 2015 conference and its practical and strategic implications for...
View ArticleIBM Watson – Broadening the Horizon of Cognitive Computing
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 25, 2015 Perceiving, understanding, reasoning and learning are as common as air in the human condition but the deep complexity of those cognitive processes...
View ArticleIBM and Cleversafe – The Objective Value of Object Storage
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 7, 2015 IBM’s announced purchase of Cleversafe, a Chicago-based developer and maker of object-based storage software and appliances, is an interesting move for a...
View ArticleDell and EMC – Better Together?
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 12, 2015 The announced plan by Dell (with assistance from MSD Partners and Silverlake) to acquire EMC comes at an interesting and challenging time for both...
View ArticleAnalytics for All? – IBM’s New Watson Analytics Storybooks and Services
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 14, 2015 Since the rise of interest and innovation in big data technologies, vendors have faced a singular challenge – how to make information access and...
View ArticleDell’s Rugged Tablet – Extending the Boundaries of End-to-End Latitude Solutions
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 21, 2015 In the July 22, 2015 issue of the Pund-IT Review, I wrote about Dell’s introduction of the new Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet, a notable addition to both its...
View ArticleDell World 2015 – Taking DSS and Hybrid Cloud Solutions to the Street
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 21, 2015 In technology and many other industries, substantial challenges can result in material opportunities. Consider the pressure that cloud providers like...
View ArticleLenovo and Red Hat Expand Cloud Portfolio & Partnership
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 28, 2015 Tech industry partnerships come in all shapes, sizes and kinds, but central to their success is the completeness of the resulting solutions and...
View ArticleIBM Insight 2015 – Connecting Cognitive Business Solutions and the “Insight...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 28, 2015 It’s always worth noting when a vendor changes an established, well-known brand. IBM’s done its share of this, and its latest transformation is on...
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