The Next Platform

IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. But IBM wants to push this up to half of ...
CNET

New IBM database speaks Web services

The company debuts a new version of its DB2 database with better Web services support and a revamped pricing plan. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive ...
Datacenter Dynamics

IBM launches new LinuxONE server with Telum II chips

IBM has launched the latest generation of its IBM LinuxONE servers - the LinuxONE 5 - featuring the IBM Telum II chip. Big Blue has additionally signed agreements with Oracle and Lumen, bringing ...
Computerworld

Update: IBM frees DB2 Express

IBM released a free version of its flagship DB2 database today, sweetening the pot by eliminating some of the key user limits imposed by rival vendors. IBM’s DB2 Universal Database Express-C ...
TechRepublic

IBM Informix: A review of the database management system

Relational database management systems help companies in almost every industry harness and tap into the power of the information they gather, store, manage and analyze for business operations. One ...
CNET

IBM to make Java database open source

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...
The Motley Fool

IBM Teams Up With Amazon for Cloud Database Service

The database software market has seen plenty of disruption in recent years brought about by the rise of cloud computing. Newer players like MongoDB and Couchbase have emerged, and it's easier than ...
ZDNet

IBM reclaims server market share revenue crown in Q4, says Gartner

IBM handily claimed the server market share lead in the fourth quarter as the company rode its new mainframe and Power7 systems, according to Gartner. Overall, fourth quarter server revenue was ...
CRN

IDC Server Market Share Leaders: Dell, HPE, IBM Battle It Out

The worldwide server market is showing no signs of slowing down as sales reached $23.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 2018, representing a global revenue increase of 12.6 percent year over year, ...
Forbes

IBM Injects 'Data Science' AI Into Its Db2 Database

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. IBM doesn’t release a whole lot of news detailing the ...
Devdiscourse

IBM's Bold Move: Acquisition Talks with Confluent Set to Reshape Data Infrastructure

IBM is in advanced negotiations to acquire data infrastructure firm Confluent for approximately $11 billion. The potential ...
CRN

How We Got Here: Lenovo's Blockbuster IBM Server Deal

IBM, which sold its PC and ThinkPad notebook business to Lenovo nine years ago, has now agreed to sell its x86 server business to the Chinese computer giant in a $2.3 billion blockbuster deal. The ...