IBM Insight 2015, Security and the Cognitive Computing Journey
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 4, 2015 In last week’s Pund-IT Review, I wrote about the analytics-related offerings and events announced at IBM Insight 2015. This week, I’d like to cover two...
View ArticlePartner or Purchase? Lenovo/Nutanix and IBM/Gravitant
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 4, 2015 Most IT vendors are in pretty good shape when it comes to their traditional focus areas and core customers. That’s partly due to experience—the more you...
View ArticleDell and EMC – The Value of Human Assets in M&A
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 11, 2015 Like other major events, Dell’s stated plan to buy EMC for $67B has fallen off the front pages since it was announced on October 12. That’s perfectly...
View ArticleIBM and Dynamic Transformation
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 18, 2015 One of the IT industry’s most enduring qualities is its continual evolution. You see it everywhere, really, in elemental technologies, products and...
View ArticleIntel and the Era of HPC Everywhere
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. November 15, 2015 Anyone who follows the supercomputing/high performance computing (HPC) space knows that for all of their jaw-dropping capabilities these systems follow...
View ArticleEMC and Dell – The Importance of Customer and Partner Commitments
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 2, 2015 Resistance to change is the rule rather than the exception among enterprise IT executives and managers, and for very good reasons. As technology...
View ArticleDell and the Business Case for Chromebooks
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 9, 2015 When Chromebooks were originally introduced by Google back in May 2011, the concept of low cost, lightly-powered, quick-booting laptops with good...
View ArticleIntel: Connecting Business and IT Innovation
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 16, 2016 As an IT industry analyst, I’m seldom invited to attend financial analyst events. There’s a certain logic to that. For one thing, the two disciplines...
View ArticleIBM GTS: Enabling and Exemplifying Digital Transformation
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 16, 2015 The idea of digital transformation gets a lot of airplay in the IT industry, and for good reason. In the developed world, computing solutions have...
View ArticleLenovo’s HX Series and Hyperconverged Market Opportunities
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 16, 2015 A week or so ago, Lenovo unveiled its newest business computing solutions – the HX Series appliances. Aimed at a range of virtual application use...
View ArticleIBM Systems – Looking Back and Ahead After a Year of Change
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. December 16, 2015 For Tier 1 systems vendors, the past year has been one of the most radically disruptive and transformative periods in IT industry history. During that...
View ArticleCES 2016 – Initial Thoughts on Unveiled Products
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 6, 2016 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off its annual run in Las Vegas this week. CES 2016 is the seventh I’ve attended, and this year initially...
View ArticleIBM’s Steve Mills – Retiring but Never Shy
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. The news on Monday that Steve Mills, IBM’s EVP of Systems and Software, has retired was a hell of a way to kick off 2016. Personally speaking, Mills has been one of IBM’s...
View ArticleCES 2016 – Looking for Innovation/Inspiration in an Off-Year
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 13, 2016 By definition and design, technology trade shows tend to be self-promotional extravaganzas. But even with that in mind, the Consumer Electronics Show...
View ArticleDishonest Criticism – When FUD Goes Off the Rails
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 13, 2016 Spooking customers for competitive or other advantage is so common in the tech industry that the chief methodologies employed – fear, uncertainty and...
View ArticleIntel’s 6th Gen Core – The Engine of the Modern Workplace
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 20, 2105 Despite the ongoing “consumerization” of IT, endpoint technologies designed for businesse need to be more durable and secure than those aimed at...
View ArticleLenovo and SAP Expand/Extend Partnership
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 27, 2016 I recently wrote about dour and largely incorrect analyst pronouncements concerning strategic IT industry partnerships. It isn’t that questioning vendor...
View ArticleIBM’s LinuxONE Mainframes – Rising to the Hybrid Cloud
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. January 27, 2016 Common among virtually all companies that enjoy long-lived success is the ability to evolve products to meet the changing needs of customers and...
View ArticleIBM’s Spectrum Storage: Now a Suite, Not Just a Family
Please note: This guest commentary is by independent IT industry analyst David G. Hill, principal of the Mesabi Group. By David G. Hill, Mesabi Group January 27, 2016 IBM has announced the IBM...
View ArticleIBM Finds a Suite Spot in Software-Defined Storage
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 3, 2016 Like other “software-defined” products in the IT industry landscape, software-defined storage (SDS) has been enjoying boom times lately. That’s due to...
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