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The Best New-Collar Job: A Mainframe Technician?
19 Sep, 2018
The IBM Apprenticeship Program and other non-traditional programs focus on new-collar mainframe job skills, which are in high demand. ...More >
Why Dell’s Security Camera IoT Offering Is Doing So Well: It Focuses on Results
07 Sep, 2018
Dell Technologies is so successful with its security effort because of the EMC storage component and the ability to be a general contractor. ...More >
Intel Actions on Security/Performance Problems Should Drive Recall and Government Oversight
04 Sep, 2018
Intel has behaved badly around a processor problem, shifting the risk to OEMs and end customers. ...More >
Dell vs. Intel and the Acquisition Process
29 Aug, 2018
Firms generally buy companies in areas where they want to expand and lack the knowledge and skills. Then they put uninformed executives in to run the effort and seem surprised when the result is a disaster. ...More >
SIGGRAPH 2018: NVIDIA Just Obsolesced Moore’s Law and Intel to Create Something Amazing
14 Aug, 2018
With the graphics technology expanding how we view reality using technologies like augmented and virtual reality, the lines are increasingly blurred between what is real and what we can imagine. ...More >
Threadripper 2: A Workstation Processor Second to None
08 Aug, 2018
Threadripper makes AMD appear trendy, gives the company bragging rights on performance, draws potential buyers to the brand, and differentiates the company positively against Intel, its primary competitor. ...More >
Why Facebook (and Others) Should Look to IBM to Save Them from Privacy Mistakes
02 Aug, 2018
IBM might be the best source for Facebook or any other company concerned about the potentially terminal exposure of breaching customer trust and violating privacy. ...More >
The AI Primer That Everyone Should Read
26 Jul, 2018
A new book frames how we got where we are, what the job risks may be, and what the future will probably look like, in the age of artificial intelligence. ...More >
Free Anti-Phishing Training from Sacha Baron Cohen
17 Jul, 2018
It is a shame that we cannot be more trusting, but the reality is that a lot of people make a living scamming others. The damage is very real. ...More >
IBM Redefines Storage Market Thanks to Impressive Leadership
11 Jul, 2018
Given new capabilities at IBM Storage, we can expect more breakout products like the new FlashSystem 9100 that include, like this hardware does, powerful new performance surprises unique to IBM. ...More >
