IBM’s Q3 2017 Earnings – Measuring the Progress of Self-Reinvention
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 25, 2017 Tech vendors reinvent themselves so often that it qualifies as a spectator sport in Silicon Valley. Strategic repositioning is necessary due to...
View ArticleArm TechCon 2017 – The Long View on Securing and Enabling IoT
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 1, 2017 In technology, as well as most every other sector, marketing relies on compartmentalization—crafting messages that make large subjects easily consumable...
View ArticleIBM Cloud Private – What it Means and Why it Matters to Enterprises
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 1, 2017 A significant disconnect exists in the public perception of cloud computing customers and end users—namely in how enterprises are served by the likes of...
View ArticleIntel + AMD = Mobile Gaming (and Other) Innovations
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 8, 2017 Mobile innovation impacts IT products of every sort. That’s certainly true for consumer endpoints, but it’s also the case for a widening range of...
View ArticleLenovo DCG – Continuing to TRANSFORM via Customer-Centric Solutions
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 15, 2017 Back in June, I attended a media and analyst event in New York City hosted by Lenovo’s Data Center Group (DCG) and entitled, TRANSFORM. The point of...
View ArticleIntel, IoT and the Next Phase of Industrial Automation
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 4, 2017 For nearly 200 years, industrial and business progress has been sparked by replacing hands-on processes with mechanized, automated and intelligent...
View ArticleIBM’s LTO-8 – Building a Bright Future for Tape Storage
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 10, 2017 Hang around the IT industry long enough and you notice that rumors of the impending demise of some product or class of products are always making the...
View ArticleDell’s XPS 13 2-in-1 – Form, Function, Flexibility
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 10, 2017 I’ve used and reviewed Dell’s XPS 13 solutions since the company introduced the line in 2012. At that time, the XPS 13 was a revelation—the first...
View ArticleDell’s IQT and the Continuum of Technology
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 18, 2017 It’s no surprise that IT vendors are excited about the Internet of Things (IoT). After all, if the commercial demand for IoT becomes even half of what...
View ArticleIBM’s Q3 2017 Earnings – Measuring the Progress of Self-Reinvention
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. October 25, 2017 Tech vendors reinvent themselves so often that it qualifies as a spectator sport in Silicon Valley. Strategic repositioning is necessary due to...
View ArticleArm TechCon 2017 – The Long View on Securing and Enabling IoT
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 1, 2017 In technology, as well as most every other sector, marketing relies on compartmentalization—crafting messages that make large subjects easily consumable...
View ArticleIBM Cloud Private – What it Means and Why it Matters to Enterprises
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 1, 2017 A significant disconnect exists in the public perception of cloud computing customers and end users—namely in how enterprises are served by the likes of...
View ArticleIBM Charts Multi-Cloud Progress
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 21, 2017 Though the tech industry is subject to consistent and considerable disruption it’s hard to think of a more fundamentally disruptive technology than...
View ArticleRethinking a Road Warrior Classic: Lenovo’s 25th Anniversary ThinkPad
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 29, 2017 Squeezing extra goodness out of primetime favorites, like Cheers, is chancy, at best. Cases in point; Frasier ran for 11 seasons, winning a then-record...
View ArticleDell’s UltraSharp 34 Curved UltraWide Monitor and the Benefits of...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 29, 2017 The IT industry loves shorthand terminology, including technical jargon, complex acronyms and rules for demonstrable trends or recurring events. These...
View ArticleDell EMC OEM – A Pragmatic Strategy for IoT
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 6, 2017 Vendors explore market opportunities in widely diverse ways, ranging from the “bet early and seriously” approach Amazon took in crafting, subsidizing...
View ArticleIBM POWER9 and the Value of Innovative Collaboration
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 6, 2017 An interesting dichotomy is common among technology vendors and customers; while most profess love or adulation for cutting edge innovations, many also...
View ArticleIntel and Mobileye: Building an Ecosystem for Automated Driving
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 13, 2017 The tech industry is no stranger when it comes to future-focused products and trends. That they tend to generate more heat than light can be blamed on...
View ArticleIBM’s Q Network and the Road to Commercial Quantum Computing
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 20, 2017 The IT industry loves to talk-up cool new technologies. Though impressive, it’s typically half an exercise in PR and half self-referential...
View ArticleCES 2018: Dell Blows Past Market Boundaries
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 10, 2018 Of the dozen or so IT industry conferences I attend annually, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is easily the most over the top in terms of people,...
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