IBM—Innovation, Investments Fuel a Transformational Journey
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 24, 2018 Ocean-going ships offer one of the most commonplace images for describing large enterprise behavior. You know the drill, including allusions to the...
View ArticleIs Intel Melting Down? Hardly.
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 7, 2018 Hang around high-tech, or any other industry long enough and you learn that headline-worthy bad news comes in mostly predictable flavors. There’s good...
View ArticleLenovo Surfs “Three Wave” Strategy to Success
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 7, 2018 Consistency may be, as Emerson noted, the “hobgoblin of little minds,” but for performance-focused analysts and investors it can qualify as the...
View ArticleIBM Power Systems – Balancing Technical Advancement and Mainstream Business...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 21, 2018 Next generation silicon and servers typically represent an apogee for data center-focused vendors. After months or years of development and tens of...
View ArticleLenovo‘s Cool Fix for HPC Energy Consumption
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 7, 2018 High performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing haven’t always been closely associated with energy efficiency. In fact, for the first four decades...
View ArticleIntel Details Next Steps in Spectre and Meltdown Fixes
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 21, 2018 The qualities required for business leadership, or leadership of any sort, aren’t exactly hard to come by. But in high tech today, these qualities are all...
View ArticleApps Go Better with AI – IBM, Apple and Coca-Cola
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 21, 2018 One of the most profound corporate IT shifts during the past decade is in developers’ roles as agents of business and technological change. That began...
View ArticleIBM THINK 2018 and the Era of Man + Machine
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 28, 2018 Computing “eras” are a common concept among those who work in or focus on the IT industry. One progression starts with the mainframe era (late 1950s to...
View ArticleNew Apple Education Push Barely Earns a Passing Grade
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 4, 2018 “You can’t go home again” is an old truism whose veracity is more often absent than evident. Think of the Prodigal Son (or daughter). Not to mention the...
View ArticleNew Dell PCs – Predictable Evolution and 8th Gen Intel Core
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 4, 2018 The concept of “law” means different things to different people. For some, laws are rules defining conventional/unconventional behavior. For others, they...
View ArticleIBM Advances its IBM Z Cross-Market Evolution
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 11, 2018 Server platforms are anything but equal so it’s no surprise that they evolve differently. On the Industry Standard side of the aisle, new/updated Intel...
View ArticleIntel at RSA 2018: Taking Security to the Silicon Level
By Charles King Pund-IT, Inc. April 18, 2018 When it comes to digital security, the past year or so has delivered multiple lessons with a single conclusion: that whatever people, including individual...
View ArticleDell EMC, Microsoft and the Key Importance of IoT Partner Ecosystems
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 25, 2018 The direction of the tech industry’s brightest spotlights tends to be fickle. That’s no surprise since they’re often operated by marketing departments...
View ArticleDell Wyse 5070 – A Thin Client for Global Markets
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 16, 2018 The PC market is one where form tends to dominate function–where pedestrian features are often dressed up in progressively stylish wrappers to emphasize...
View ArticleUpdating a Classic: Dell’s New XPS 15 2-in-1
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 14 2018 There are two ways to screw-up classic or iconic products. First, a vendor can treat the device with the softest of kid gloves, timidly avoiding changes...
View ArticleDell Technologies – An Enterprise Vendor in Full
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 28, 2018 Does massive, ground-shifting change ever happen in an instant? Sure, at least enough to inspire songs, films and best-selling books. But more often,...
View ArticleDell EMC’s OEM Solutions: New Leadership + Evolving Strategy = Continuing...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 3, 2018 Leadership changes can be challenging for business organizations, particularly when the executives being replaced have enjoyed notable success. Those...
View ArticleIntel Architecture Day: Manufacturing, IP, Integration to Drive Next Gen...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 19, 2018 The IT industry’s big love for new products and achievements is well-documented, but like any obsession, it occasionally turns pathological. That’s...
View ArticleIBM’s Ginni Rometty at CES 2019 – Relying on “IBM Underneath”
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 9, 2019 The value of keynoting the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) can’t really be overestimated. That’s especially true for the opening session when the...
View ArticleDell PCs at CES 2019 – Commercial Differentiation Via Technical Innovation
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 9, 2019 The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas hosts thousands of vendors pitching new and improved products. But like a lot of what you see on...
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