IBM
LzLabs vs IBM: The latest from court
The latest from London’s Technology & Construction Court as companies clash over mainframe migration software.
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Interview: CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on nice guy Nutanix’s latest trick
On a grey, chilly, wet Chicago morning your correspondent makes a quick exit on South Michigan Avenue to the American Writers Museum to dodge the rain and to be reminded of Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”. The same can be said
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Smart buildings at an inflexion point
Smart buildings may be growing in popularity but they remain dwarfed by their dumb relations. However, with energy bills through the roof and a growing mandate for sustainability, that may well change very soon. “Less than 5% [of commercial buildings] are digital and smart, so there’s a lot of
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Siemens Smart Infrastructure CTO: It's got far cheaper to link major devices
Smart buildings may be growing in popularity but they remain dwarfed by their dumb, if functional, relations. However, with energy bills through the roof and a growing mandate for sustainability, that may well change very soon: “Less than 5% [of commercial buildings] are digital and smart, so there’s a
Enterprise IT
Why ERP firm IFS’s passage to Sri Lanka deserves attention
IT companies scour the world these days for destinations that will help them locate skilled workers and drive cost efficiencies. India has of course become a global nexus for software factories, consulting services and offshoring. Central and eastern Europe have become happy hunting grounds, even for countries that have had
Cybersecurity
The Big Interview: CISO and CTO Chuck Herrin on olive branches and APIs
"They all looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears"
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Can Manchester United's youth academy inspire this new technology training programme?
All too often, attempts at philanthropy and ESG can appear to be token gestures, handy for ticking a checkbox, issuing a press release and brand building but not much else. However, today services giant DXC Technology and Manchester United will announce an educational partnership that at first sight looks a
Enterprise IT
The data plumbing for real-time machine learning is becoming more accessible
"It extracts the most relevant data so you only compute what’s necessary"
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One to Watch: VictoriaMetrics - The story of a startup from Ukraine
This is the story of a young company seeking success, and it is a familiar story in many ways. Bright people have an idea to fill a gap in the market – check. They form a bootstrapped company – check. They work long hours hacking code – check. They spread the word and
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Nuance is taking ChatGPT to the contact centre: Redmond's buyout looks canny
Voice Assistant, can you say ‘Kismet’? Turns out that when Microsoft completed its deal to buy Nuance Communications a little over a year ago for about $19.7 billion, the purchase may have been better than it anticipated at the time. Either that or part of a grand plan, because
CIO
Lenovo's Global CIO Arthur Hu on working two jobs and coming up via the helpdesk
“You’re right, I need a new agent!” quips Arthur Hu, a man who since April 2022 combines the role of global CIO at Lenovo with that of CTO of the giant’s Solutions & Services Group (SSG). A Lenovo veteran of 13 years and CIO for over six of
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Summer School offers a glimpse of Narnia as CDO role evolves
At the end of June, over 400 prospective heads of data will gather, virtually, for the sixth annual online Carruthers and Jackson Summer School for Data Leaders. The success of the 10-week digital course is proof, as if it were needed, that the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role and the