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IBM SkillsBuild offers courses and credentials in sustainability and digital skills available for free to all learners. As technology continues to play a significant role in the green sector, workers must continue to develop their digital skills to remain competitive and contribute to the growth of sustainable practices.

MSPs agree with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s claim that the $6.4 billion HashiCorp acquisition will bring synergies to IBM’s software portfolio, …

“Although software acceleration is encouraging, this was offset by more significant-than-expected deterioration of Consulting, along with incremental FX headwinds expected for the rest of the year,” analysts at J.P.Morgan said. Weakness in smaller discretionary projects affected the consulting segment, but analysts at J.P.Morgan said the backlog could help reaccelerate the business through 2024.

IBM executives painted the planned $6.4 billion purchase of cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp as complementary to multiple business segments – including fellow open-source tools provider Red Hat – even as IBM reported quarterly results that came in below Wall Street’s expectations. IBM Consulting brought in $5.2 billion in revenue during the quarter, up 1.7 percent year over year ignoring foreign exchange, according to the vendor.

IBM’s comprehensive AI strategy, centered around the watsonx platform, is designed to help clients scale AI. IBM’s full-stack approach, from on-chip AI processing to AI accelerator cards, is designed to facilitate model building and training on any platform, with easy deployment on IBM Z.

In its announcement, IBM said the acquisition of HashiCorp is designed to bolster its position in the hybrid cloud and AI markets. IBM has confirmed it has entered into a definitive agreement with HashiCorp in which it will acquire the California-based software company for $35 per share, equating to a $6.4 billion deal.

From bustling metropolises to cultural epicenters around the globe, information technology is helping to transform and reshape enterprise companies. As organizations grapple with the dual imperatives of innovation and fiscal prudence, storage solutions are playing a pivotal role in navigating the complexities of modern IT landscapes. “Generative AI has hit us as an industry,” said The post From data centers to clouds: IBM reveals how information technology is redefining storage strategies appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. … IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

And, today, IBM is leading an evolution in corporate citizenship by contributing innovative solutions and strategies that will help transform and empower our global communities. Rising sea levels and flooding threaten coastal megacities like New York City and Jakarta, and extreme heat waves, like those that afflict cities across South Asia and the Middle East each year, are projected to become more frequent and severe.

Generative AI transforms customer service by introducing context-aware conversations that go beyond simple question-and-answer interactions. The post AI transforms the IT support experience appeared first on IBM Blog.

Explore some key use cases and customer stories in this blog about business process reengineering (BPR) examples. The post Business process reengineering (BPR) examples appeared first on IBM Blog.

Commerce strategy—what we might formerly have referred to as ecommerce strategy—is so much more than it once was. Discover what’s changed. The post Commerce strategy: Ecommerce is dead, long live ecommerce appeared first on IBM Blog.

IBM today announced the new IBM FlashSystem 5300, a powerful entry-level storage solution that delivers exceptional price performance, high availability, and enterprise-class data services to all sizes of businesses in just one rack unit. IBM today announced the new IBM FlashSystem 5300, a powerful entry-level storage solution that delivers exceptional price performance, high availability, and enterprise-class data services to all sizes of businesses in just one rack unit.

– New program increases the lifetime of storage investments with purchase protection and flexibility

By co-creating AI solutions with industry experts, in the format of a pilot, companies and partners explore and integrate generative AI capabilities into their business – to save time, money or create new business value Blendow Group, Nexer, Edsvärd Hållbarhet, BanFast and Vasaloppet have already successfully explored IBM watsonx to drive business innovation with AI, The post Put AI to Work – with Focus on Right Use Cases and Co-creation with IBM Client Engineering appeared first on IBM Nordic Blog.

HashiCorp’s software for infrastructure and security life cycle management will complement IBM’s services around hybrid cloud and AI, IBM asserted in a news release. It will also set the stage for a new set of integrated offerings that combine HashiCorp’s software with that of IBM and Red Hat, that will allow customers to rerun operations across multiple public cloud providers (“multi-cloud”).

… IBM 5150. Now, while IBM’s PC was far from an industry first, the company’s version set a standard for the use case pricing and underlying …

IBM is reportedly in talks to buy HashiCorp, sparking debate among IT pros about how the parent company of Red Hat might approach a new subsidiary’s open source issues. HashiCorp was seeking buyers last month, according to a Bloomberg report; this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is nearing an acquisition of the cloud-native infrastructure software company, possibly within the week.

The IBM Think conference in Boston will be full of opportunities to network and gain insights on AI, cloud computing, and quantum computing.

Last November, IBM announced the creation of an investment fund of half a billion dollars to invest in companies active in the field of artificial intelligence. ‘AI and cybersecurity are two areas where businesses are putting a lot of emphasis at the highest level,’ says the IBM Greece head.