IBM: Simplifying the Journey to Hybrid Cloud
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 10, 2016 A metaphorical journey can be a powerful image when it comes to technology, both in terms of the larger industry and specific IT solutions. Why so?...
View ArticleWork Globally/Innovate Locally – How Dell’s OEM Organization Helps Clients...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 15, 2016 The Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) model is common across the globe in industries and businesses of every sort, but it is particularly...
View ArticleIBM Introduces Platform Conductor for Spark
By David Hill, Mesabi Group February 17, 2016 Please note: This guest commentary is by independent IT industry analyst David G. Hill, principal of the Mesabi Group. Apache Spark is an open-source...
View ArticleEMC and VMware – Sharpening the Hyperconverged Edge
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 17, 2016 Developing enterprise-class computing solutions for use by small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and similar use cases has been common for years...
View ArticleIBM Doubles Encryption Performance in New Mid-Market Mainframe
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 17, 2016 For decades the IT industry has enabled what might be called “trickle-down” innovation across numerous markets and industries with effects that have...
View ArticleIs Apple’s Teflon Skin Wearing Thin?
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 24, 2016 Since Steve Jobs’ celebrated return in 1997 Apple has played, mostly successfully, by its own rules. Along the way, the company has weathered mistakes...
View ArticleDell Launches New Industrial PC Solutions
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. February 24, 2016 Embedded system solutions are evolving rapidly due to the efforts of some traditional system vendors, benefitting a wide range of industrial customers...
View ArticleIBM InterConnect 2016: Mobilizing the Cloud
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 2, 2016 Generalizing too randomly on the subject of IT business conferences is a mistake. There are virtually as many different kinds as there are vendors, and the...
View ArticleEMC: Going Full-Flash on Primary Storage
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 2, 2016 Flash-based storage has played increasingly important roles in business computing for the better part of a decade, beginning in 2008 when EMC became the...
View ArticleHortonworks and the Age of Data
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 9, 2016 Evolution and growth are common in organizations of every sort but especially those in the IT industry. That’s partly due to the nature of technology...
View ArticleLenovo, Juniper and the Value of IT Partnerships
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 9, 2016 Strategic partnerships have a long history in the technology industry, and for good reasons: In markets where strategic advantage is rapidly evolving,...
View ArticleCitrix’s New Direction: Follow the Apps
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 16, 2016 Directional course changes are never easy, sometimes impossible and occasionally disastrous. Just ask the captain of the Titanic. But the same thing...
View ArticleIBM and Datawatch Partner to Enhance Analytics
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 16, 2016 Analytics has been such an elemental part of the “big data” news cycle over the past couple of years that it’s all too easy to forget that success is...
View ArticleEMC: Enterprises Racing to Transform/Be Transformed by IT
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 16, 2016 Transform: To change in structure, appearance or condition, usually in a good way (Merriam Webster) The idea that information technology (IT) can...
View ArticleAndy Grove – The “Inside” Man at Intel
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 23, 2016 The news of former Intel president, CEO, COO and chairman Andrew “Andy” Grove’s death was not unexpected. At age 79, Grove enjoyed a full life despite...
View ArticleGCP 2016 – A Coming-Out Party for Google Cloud Platform
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 30, 2016 I attend more IT vendor and industry conferences than is probably good for me (especially given the amount of rubber chicken I’ve consumed over the...
View ArticleParsing NTT DATA’s Pending Acquisition of Dell Services
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. March 30, 2016 The pending acquisition of Dell Services by NTT DATA didn’t include many surprises. The agreement has been hinted at since mid-February, since...
View ArticleIntel: New Xeon Silicon, SSDs and Cloud for All
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 6, 2016 For years, Intel’s new product introductions occurred with steady reliability, an issue emphasized by its well-known “Tick Tock” processor release cycles....
View ArticleDell – The Present and Future of Hyperconverged Solutions
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. Unconventional ideas are a trial for the small-minded. That’s certainly the case in day-to-day circumstances, but it tends to be even more pronounced in business. For...
View ArticleOpenPOWER’s Open Horizons
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 6, 2016 I’m in San Jose, California this week attending NVIDIA’s annual Graphics Technology Conference (GTC 2016) but the primary reason I’m here is for the...
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