IBM’s integration of Apptio software on Microsoft Azure Marketplace expands solutions for enterprises. With enterprise agile planning, IT financial management, and cloud financial operations tools, this integration streamlines budget management and enhances VoIP services.
IBM has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG for €2.13 billion. This acquisition significantly boosts IBM’s WatsonX AI and data platform by adding robust data ingestion and integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) functionalities. The move sets IBM to offer a cutting-edge application and data integration platform, focusing on hybrid cloud environments.
Telefónica Tech and IBM have partnered to leverage the growing interest in AI among businesses. Initially focused on Spain, this collaboration aims to address various digital transformation challenges that companies face, particularly in integrating and maximizing data analytics and AI, including generative AI (GenAI).
IBM’s latest partnership with the UK government to create a national biometrics platform has sparked heated debate within the tech community. While the tech giant affirms its commitment against mass surveillance, fear persists about the system’s potential for misuse. Transparency and clear parameters for this new technology’s use are now of paramount importance.
IBM and Salesforce have unveiled a groundbreaking collaboration aimed at accelerating the worldwide adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Their partnership seeks to empower businesses across various industries to transform customer, partner, and employee experiences while ensuring the security of their data.
IBM’s Quantum Safe portfolio, launched at the Think conference, addresses emerging security risks from quantum computing advancements. Offering enhanced protection against potential quantum-powered cyberattacks, this suite of tools and roadmap aims to guide organizations through the post-quantum era.
The American technology giant, IBM, has announced its highly notable and groundbreaking commitment of providing 30 million people around the globe with the skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow by 2030. The corporation’s ambitious declaration comes with a clearly and carefully thought through plan that will involve over 170 new academic and industry partnerships. With this program, IBM aims to expand access to education and in-demand technical roles, closing the global skills gap and providing career opportunities in the tech industry. The company’s plan will involve multiple broad spectrum educational programs and collaborations with universities, governmental entities, employment agencies and NGOs, such as Junior Achievement Americas in LATAM, the Vocational Training Council in Hong Kong, War Child in Sweden and many more. “Talent is everywhere; training opportunities are not. This is why we must take big and bold steps to expand access to digital skills and…
IBM and Telefónica Argentina (Movistar) have announced a live, fully operational Open RAN network that will act as a proof of concept (PoC) for the delivery of commercial mobile services to the city of Puerto Madryn, Argentina, covering 81,000 urban residents. The launch allows for the testing of live, commercial traffic and provides an early proof point for the technology as it continues to develop. IBM has led the system integration process, assembling components and systems from a number of software and hardware vendors, including Altiostar, Red Hat, Quanta, Gigatera and Kontron, from pre-integration all the way through to full deployment. Open RAN is a state-of-the-art radio access network technology that enables interoperability for transforming a radio network into an open cloud environment in which multiple vendors can participate to create a better and more efficient service network. When using Open RAN, operators can combine hardware and software…
Telecommunications giant Telefónica has expanded its long-standing technology partnership with IBM and announced the release of Cloud Garden 2.0, the next step in Telefonica’s cloud services platform to accelerate application modernization. Cloud Garden 2.0 is supported on IBM Cloud Pak and Red Hat OpenShift. The first iteration of Cloud Garden, launched in 2019, was originally based on IBM Cloud Private technology. However, Cloud Garden 2.0 switched to the hybrid Red Hat OpenShift cloud Kubernetes platform and the IBM Cloud Pak for Application. Telefónica customers can now run their applications on containers on premises or in the cloud environment of their choice, along with the simplification and speeding up when launching new solutions. Cloud Garden 2.0 is hosted through Telefonica’s Virtual Data Center in Spain, helping its customers experience low latency and better uptime for managing their applications. Andrés López Hedoire, de Enterprise Product Marketing Director, Telefónica España, commented:…
The global telecom giants are increasingly acknowledging the benefits of blockchain technology. Telefonica, a Spanish multinational telecommunications company, has signed a partnership with IBM, a leader in open-source blockchain solutions, to employ IBM blockchain technology for superior administration of international call traffic. Telefonica expects that the usage of the cloud-based IBM Blockchain Platform will help to improve the traceability of international call data, such as the origin of the call, its destination and duration. They will be able to detect fraud and address other challenges caused by the use of different networks and operators when routing international calls. Operators will have permissioned access to a decentralized platform, and perform real-time tracing of calls to achieve accurate billing processes. “This project is one of our first initiatives to secure real benefits from the adoption of blockchain in our core business. We believe that the new paradigm of process decentralization…
