IBM cloud chief keen on speed

IBM’s new man in charge of the cloud business is moving fast. “What I’m focusing on is speed,” said Robert LeBlanc, the new senior vice president for IBM Cloud. “Because the market continues to change, we have to get things to market quickly and then iterate.”

IBM System/360

Launched in 1964, IBM’s System/360 Mainframe computer transformed the company’s fortunes and hailed a new era of processing power.

IBM launches z13 Mainframe

It provides new capabilities such as being able to process 2.5 billion transactions a day. It makes practical real-time encryption of all mobile transactions at any scale.

IBM releases new software storage layer

IBM today unveiled IBM Spectrum Stibm software storageorage, a new storage software portfolio designed to address data storage inefficiencies by introducing a layer of software to traditional hardware.

IBM releases new software storage layer

IBM today unveiled IBM Spectrum Storage, a new storage software portfolio designed to address data storage inefficiencies by introducing a layer of software to traditional hardware.

IBM releases new software storage layer

IBM today unveiled IBM Spectrum Storage, a new storage software portfolio designed to address data storage inefficiencies by introducing a layer of software to traditional hardware.

IBM planning ‘110,000’ job cuts

IBM is apparently planning the most devastating jobs cuts in business history, with a reported 110,000 employees from a global workforce of 435,000 facing redundancy, US Forbes has reported.

IBM reports grim Q4 earnings

IBM will favour buyouts that strengthen its cloud services, the company’s CFO has said, as it looks for ways to expand its business after 11 straight quarters of declining revenue.

IBM unleashes new Mainframe

IBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by smartphones and tablets.

IBM announces 11 new cloud centres

IBM is building out its global computing network in a bid to focus on the enterprise cloud market, announcing that it is adding cloud centres in 11 new locations.

Apple, IBM release first mobile apps

IBM and Apple have unveiled the first results of their enterprise IT partnership: 10 mobile applications aimed at businesses in six industries as well as government users.

IBM’s Rometty defends rocky financial results

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is moving quickly to quell concerns about the company’s sinking earnings and decision to pay more than a billion dollars to cast off its money-losing microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries.

IBM offloads semiconductor unit to GlobalFoundries

IBM will sell the semiconductor technologies unit that makes its Power processors to Abu Dhabi-owned GlobalFoundries, paying the chip manufacturer about US$1.3 billion to take two factories off its hands in a move to erase losses.

GET TAHAWULTECH.COM IN YOUR INBOX

The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines