The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), founded in 1911, manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.
Some IBM Global Technology Services employees have been told they keep their jobs (and 90 percent of their pay) as long as they retrain on hot new technologies. Read more »
Structure Connect, the third and final installment of Gigaom’s 2014 Structure series, comes to San Francisco October 21 and 22 with a comprehensive look at the internet of things. Read more »
There are no shortages of ways to build out infrastructure for the internets of things, or in the protocols proposed. Today, API company Apigee unveiled its offering for developers and device… Read more »
Everyone has an idea of how we need to build out the infrastructure for the internet of things, and big companies like IBM may have several. This week we learn about… Read more »
Combine Bitcoin’s block chain technology, BitTorrent and a secure messaging protocol called telehash and you get a distributed infrastructure that some IBM researchers think would be ideal for the internet of… Read more »
APIs continue to increase well beyond most enterprises’ ability to effectively manage them, which has lead to a new set of standards around governance, planning, and best practices. Read more »
There are big changes afoot atop Citrix’s cloud organization as Sameer Dholakia, Shannon WIlliams and Sheng Liang depart and Klaus Oestermann heads a revamped organization. Read more »
Many companies have many document repositories — Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox. Cloud Elements says its new Filebrowser.io will give one-stop access to all that stuff — provided its API hub… Read more »