Articles about IBM

IBM to acquire Accelalpha, a Seattle-area firm that helps companies manage Oracle Cloud products

IBM announced Monday that it plans to acquire Accelalpha, a Bellevue, Wash.-based services provider that specializes in managing Oracle Cloud… Read More

IBM completes $4.6B acquisition of Apptio

IBM said Thursday that it officially completed its all-cash $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and IT… Read More

From idea to IPO to IBM: How Apptio defied the skeptics on its 16-year journey to a $4.6B deal

Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. It had been less than… Read More

IBM’s $4.6B Apptio deal marks another new era for Seattle-area cloud and IT management company

IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after… Read More

Amazon and Microsoft join White House team to unleash high-performance computing on COVID-19

Less than a week after the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a consortium to focus the… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon rise in patent rankings; Ford lands in top 10; Samsung and IBM take top spots

Two new rankings show Microsoft rising up the list of companies that won U.S. patents in 2019, based on the… Read More

We had blockchain for dinner at CES with IBM and celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez

LAS VEGAS — Mmmmm, blockchain. IBM hosted a dinner this week at CES with celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez, who put… Read More

Quantum bits: Intel unveils ‘Horse Ridge,’ a cryogenic chip for quantum computers

Microsoft, Amazon and Google aren’t the only companies making headway in quantum computing. Intel is showing off a new type… Read More

IBM sues Zillow, accuses the real estate giant of building key features using Big Blue’s tech

IBM filed a lawsuit against Zillow this week, accusing the real estate giant of piggybacking off its patented technology to… Read More

Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others join forces for cloud security in ‘confidential computing’ group

A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces… Read More

Tech Moves: Skytap CEO Thor Culverhouse hands reins to CTO; Apptio CMO Chris Pick retires

Thor Culverhouse is no longer the CEO of enterprise cloud services company Skytap, and former chief technology officer Bradley Schick… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Visual Studio Live; Tech Diversity Summit; history of the PC; and more

— You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in tech who doesn’t know about Visual Studio — and most of them… Read More

Microsoft, Amazon, other tech giants forge ahead on healthcare data sharing pledge

This past August, executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce banded together to promote data sharing in healthcare.… Read More

Tech Moves: Easy Metrics lands new CMO; Rakhi Voria jumps to IBM from Microsoft; and more

— Jill Keto signed on to be chief marketing officer at Easy Metrics, a supply chain operations startup that helps… Read More

IBM Watson will now run on third-party clouds like Amazon Web Services

Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence service, is taking its act on the road. IBM plans to announce later Tuesday at its… Read More

Red Hat donates a key open-source Kubernetes tool to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Red Hat plans to announce Tuesday that it will donate an important tool that helps ensure Kubernetes clusters run reliably… Read More

Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Blair Hanley Frank, principal analyst at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.] IBM’s… Read More

Why Microsoft, IBM, Google and Boeing are taking a giant leap into quantum computing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The small world of quantum physics is a big deal on the frontier of computer science. Microsoft CEO… Read More

Five experts explain how software development and operations teams are adjusting to the rapid changes caused by cloud computing

While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting… Read More

IBM

IBM to acquire Accelalpha, a Seattle-area firm that helps companies manage Oracle Cloud products

IBM completes $4.6B acquisition of Apptio

IBM’s $4.6B Apptio deal marks another new era for Seattle-area cloud and IT management company

Amazon and Microsoft join White House team to unleash high-performance computing on COVID-19

Microsoft and Amazon rise in patent rankings; Ford lands in top 10; Samsung and IBM take top spots

We had blockchain for dinner at CES with IBM and celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez

Quantum bits: Intel unveils ‘Horse Ridge,’ a cryogenic chip for quantum computers

IBM sues Zillow, accuses the real estate giant of building key features using Big Blue’s tech

Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others join forces for cloud security in ‘confidential computing’ group

Tech Moves: Skytap CEO Thor Culverhouse hands reins to CTO; Apptio CMO Chris Pick retires

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Visual Studio Live; Tech Diversity Summit; history of the PC; and more

Microsoft, Amazon, other tech giants forge ahead on healthcare data sharing pledge

Tech Moves: Easy Metrics lands new CMO; Rakhi Voria jumps to IBM from Microsoft; and more

IBM Watson will now run on third-party clouds like Amazon Web Services

Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition

Why Microsoft, IBM, Google and Boeing are taking a giant leap into quantum computing

Five experts explain how software development and operations teams are adjusting to the rapid changes caused by cloud computing

U.S. makes its pitch to wrest the world’s supercomputer top spot from China

Microsoft Teams ratchets up Slack challenge, claims 200k organizations as customers one year after launch

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Employment lawyers puzzled over IBM’s non-compete suit against Microsoft’s new diversity chief

IBM sues Microsoft’s new chief diversity officer over non-compete agreement

Meet the TrashBot: CleanRobotics is using machine learning to keep recycling from going to waste

IBM sues Expedia, alleging online travel giant built its business on Big Blue’s patents

Jesse Proudman leaves IBM to start new AI-based cryptocurrency startup, says he can’t kick the ‘entrepreneurial bug’

IBM launches new version of its private cloud with built-in Kubernetes support

New open-source project led by Google aims to help companies track the history of their software