Is Intel in Trouble? Parsing Qualcomm + Windows 10 and AMD’s EPYC
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. July 5, 2017 Silicon Valley loves anything new. That’s clear in everything from the tech industry’s vigorous drum-beating over barely emerging trends and products to its...
View ArticleIntel “Purley” and the Road to Holistic Data Center Leadership
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. July 11, 2017 For decades, generational microprocessor advances defined the cutting edge of IT industry innovation. That was partly due to the linear simplicity of...
View ArticleDell EMC Fattens Thin Client Portfolio for SMBs
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. July 12, 2017 Thin clients inhabit an odd corner of business IT where enthusiasm for the technology can tend to outshine its relatively modest but constantly growing...
View ArticleIBM’s z14 – Continuous Intelligence Meets Machine Learning Everywhere
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. July 17, 2017 Study IBM’s Z mainframe long enough and the sheer scale of the platform is what tends to stand out. I don’t just mean the physical size of the mainframe...
View ArticleDell Technologies and the IFTF Forecast the Future of Work
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. July 19, 2017 Predicting the future is easy enough. In fact, survey business and investing bestsellers and you’ll find dozens of books and authors who claim to have an...
View ArticleDell Precision and the Democratization of Visual Computing
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 2, 2017 Context is critical for understanding compute performance. It is expressed most often in terms of speed or volume and the resulting percentage gain...
View ArticleIntel, MobileEye and Autonomous Driving – Getting from Here to There
By Charles King Pund-IT, Inc. August 9, 2017 It’s easier to talk-up destinations than it is the often lengthy, costly and sometimes fraught journeys they require. That shouldn’t be surprising since...
View ArticleIBM Research Blows Away Deep Learning Records
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. Popular references to artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of computing that mimic human intelligence are so commonplace that it is easy to forget they depend on...
View ArticleIntel’s 8th Gen Core Makes a Powerful Case for New/Upgraded PCs
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 23, 2017 Steve Jobs’ 2011 launch of Apple’s all-new iPad seemed like a homerun from the start. Following three years of stunning iPhone success, the concept of a...
View ArticleIBM and VMware: Hybrid Cloud Partnership Yields Thoroughbred Value
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. August 27, 2017 There’s no shortage of partnerships in the IT industry. That’s partly due to simple practicality—no single vendor can do absolutely everything its...
View ArticleLenovo’s ThinkAgile VX Series and Hybrid Cloud Computing
By Charles King Pund-IT, Inc. August 30, 2017 If you’re looking for a common thread connecting cloud computing, hybrid cloud, integrated systems and hyperconverged appliances, virtualization is the...
View ArticleDell Enhances Consumer PC Support and VDI Solutions to Address Modern...
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. IT companies regularly talk about being “customer focused” but what exactly does that mean in practical terms? Most vendors conduct or sponsor market research studies...
View ArticleVMworld 2017 and VMware’s Evolutionary Road to Multi-Cloud
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 6, 2017 IT vendors, at least the ones that know what they’re doing, are in a relatively constant state of change. Partly that’s due to the nature of technology...
View ArticleDell EMC Deal’s 1st Anniversary – Reasons for Celebration
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 6, 2017 How can you tell if a technology acquisition is a success? That’s not always easy to say, partly due to the inherent complexity of such transactions...
View ArticleIntel’s New Core Desktop Silicon – Know Your Customers and Their Customers
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 27, 2017 Intel’s latest 8th gen Core i3, i5 and i7 desktop chips and its new Core X-Series Extreme Edition processors offer a fresh example of one of IT’s more...
View ArticleIBM Launches New Integrated Analytics System with Machine Learning
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. September 27, 2017 Information analytics has never been a “one size fits all” proposition. That applies to the hardware and software technologies organizations employ,...
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...
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