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.
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.
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.
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
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.
“The enterprise storage market closed out 2015 on a slight downturn, as spending on traditional external arrays continues to decline."
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.
From a regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent.
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.
“Cloud IT infrastructure growth continues to outpace the growth of the overall IT infrastructure market."
“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."
"This is a different kind of engagement than IBM has ever had in the past with its end users."
"In 2014, adoption seemed to level off for hosted private cloud, but factors such as "cloudwashing" and increased market awareness."
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 tech giant is most likely to win significant Cloud hosting projects? Amazon Web Services? Microsoft? IBM?
"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."