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• IBM’s new Watson Assistant targets business with ‘white label’ service

  The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.

• Apple's Mobility Partner Program comes out of hiding

  You won’t find many public references by Apple to its Mobility Partner Program, an expanding effort by the company to unite with software developers/integrators to boost sales of iPhones and iPads to businesses. But the veil of secrecy surrounding the program is thinning.

• Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2016 so far

  Here’s a rundown of some of the more notable layoffs, workforce reductions, resizings or whatever computer and networking companies want to call them so far in 2016

• Meg Whitman tells IT leaders everything they need to know about HP Enterprise

  In a recent interview, HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman discusses her firm's RD strategy and how it differentiates itself from other IT vendors in areas including cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure, among others. She also talks about HP's image problem.

• ​EMC keeps Hewlett Packard Enterprise at bay, but enterprise storage market slides

  “The enterprise storage market closed out 2015 on a slight downturn, as spending on traditional external arrays continues to decline."

• ​Cloud deployments rise as IT infrastructure spend grows

  The overall share of Cloud IT infrastructure sales climbed to 33.8 per cent in 3Q15, up from 28.7 per cent a year ago.

• ​Region posts highest vendor server revenue as HP maintains market share

  From a regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent.

• ​How to cut cost and complexity out of storage infrastructure

  Total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew 2.1 percent year over year to US$8.8 billion during the second quarter of 2015.

• HP fends off Dell as Cloud IT infrastructure demand heightens

  “Cloud IT infrastructure growth continues to outpace the growth of the overall IT infrastructure market."

• Back-up market off to “strong start” as EMC leads Symantec

  “The worldwide PBBA market got off to a strong start in 2015 with solid year-over-year revenue growth in the historically slower first quarter."

• INSIGHT: With Watson Analytics, finance revives its entrepreneurial spirit

  "This is a different kind of engagement than IBM has ever had in the past with its end users."

• Who is the most popular hosted private cloud provider?

  "In 2014, adoption seemed to level off for hosted private cloud, but factors such as "cloudwashing" and increased market awareness."

• Which vendor sold the most all-flash storage in 2014?

  Which vendor was the number one all-flash storage array vendor in 2014? Shipping more petabytes and units for SSA than any other competitor.

• Which Cloud hosting partner is most likely to win your business?

  Which tech giant is most likely to win significant Cloud hosting projects? Amazon Web Services? Microsoft? IBM?

• Software market grows as new Cloud players threaten vendor dominance

  "As the cloud value proposition becomes more clear, many platform as a service (PaaS) providers like Google, Engine Yard, Informatica and Dell Boomi are a threat to established players."