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Much of the discussion at Hannover Messe 2017, the world’s largest annual industrial fair, will center on the fourth revolution of industry, or, simply, Industry 4.0. While Industry 4.0 is a relatively new topic, it has deep roots that tie back more than 200 years to the first industrial revolution when new manufacturing processes came...

IBM is to build four new data centres in the UK to meet demand from corporate and public sector clients, who it says are rapidly adopting cloud services. The investment will see IBM increase from two data centres to six. The firm’s decision follows the likes of Facebook and Google who have decided that the advantages...

This is the first in a two-part interview series with Lynda Stadtmueller, vice president of cloud services for the analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. Thoughts on Cloud (ToC): A recent survey by Frost & Sullivan reported that 80 percent of US companies are planning to increase their use of cloud managed services. What factors are...

Europe’s largest independent IT solutions provider, SCC, has achieved Platinum status in IBM’s new PartnerWorld programme redesigned for the Cognitive era. Earning the highest tier within the PartnerWorld programme, Platinum Business Partners consistently demonstrate proven capabilities and expertise in IBM technologies to help their clients succeed in their digital transformation. John Bland, Director of UK...

Author: John Easton 2016 has shown that expert predictions don’t always play out in quite the ways people expect. If anything, the mantra of “expect the unexpected” seems to be the only one to follow right now. With this as a backdrop, I thought about what the world of cloud might expect to see as 2017...

Technology industry giants Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have joined forces to form the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI) group, with the intent of sharing information on artificial intelligence and working to address key issues such as privacy and ethics. The group plans to use a standard open license to publish research with...

IBM has announced its plan to open four new data centres in the UK, in response to increasing commercial and public sector demand for its Cloud services. Once complete, the investment will take the number of its UK facilities to six. The first of the new data centres will open in Fareham in December in...

IBM has announced that they are saving significant amounts of money by deploying Apple Macs across their business as opposed to traditional PCs. This statement comes a week before the scheduled announcement of new Macs, with IBM claiming to have seen savings of up to $535 per Mac over four years. 90,000 IBM employees now...

Introduction Cloud computing delivers a set of technology capabilities and business functions as services on demand over the Internet or on a private network. The “cloud” is the infrastructure that the services run on, generally comprised of hypervisors, virtual machines, containers, storage devices, and networking devices – as well as the workload management technologies that...

A Forrester Total Economic ImpactTM study Find out the potential return on investment (ROI) that you could realise by deploying the IBM® PureApplication® System, including: Reducing or eliminating IT utilities and administration costs Improving IT provisioning and development efficiencies Enhancing business capability and resiliency     No thanks. Take me to your IBM PureApplication System...

If you could amplify the power of your brain, would you? How many people would turn down the ability to read a book in a few minutes and be able to comprehend, retain, and recall the information in an instant? What if you could compile all of the information in your brain and turn all...

We are on the cusp of a new age of computing. One where smart businesses are starting to think differently about how they design, build, and deliver technology solutions. We believe that IT teams need rise up and help drive this innovation. That’s why SCC is collaborating with IBM to help our clients apply the power...