Charles King

Disasters impact people and organizations in different ways. Some wither and fall under enormous pressure while others rally and hold on. Still others discover unexpected capacities and characteristics that can help them not just cope with seemingly overwhelming events but thrive to explore new options and opportunities. These dynamics can similarly impact commercial technologies and […]

If you follow enterprise computing, you know that hybrid multi-cloud technologies and solutions are driving many companies’ IT discussions, strategies, plans and implementations. The reasons for that are pretty straightforward; though organizations continue to enjoy the easy access of public cloud, few are embracing those platforms for most or all their IT needs. In fact, a […]

If garnering the full value of business information and data assets were important for companies prior to COVID-19, it will be absolutely imperative as businesses begin to recover and heal in the wake of the pandemic. How IT vendors respond to the needs of their customers and partners, and what innovations they offer to speed […]

Blockchain is being promoted for a wide range of business and industrial processes. However, the technology is especially well-suited for financial services use cases where securing highly sensitive data, including digital identities and currencies, tokenized assets, payment information and smart contracts, is paramount. That point is central to the new beta program announced by IBM and R3 that […]

As-a-Service (aaS) solution offerings are commonplace in the tech industry. For years, hardware vendors offered customers aaS-based options to replace the capital expenditure (CAPEX) sting of equipment acquisition with easier to manage operational expense (OPEX) payments. That is a particularly important issue for financially constrained companies, including startups and small businesses. In addition, aaS-based solutions […]

IBM’s has announced a plan to spin off the Infrastructure Services business unit in its Global Technology Services (GTS) group as a new, free-standing organization. This is both surprising and unsurprising: It’s surprising because it is a formal separation from a group that has long reflected the company’s core value proposition and also drives a substantial portion […]

Strategic partner programs have been around the tech industry for decades, and typically involve regional-specific or industry-focused resellers and specialist firms with close ties to their business clients. The results can be good for all involved, providing end customers valuable services and solutions, and building sustainable commercial relationships for both IT vendors and their partners. […]

Discussions of leading cloud computing often focus on the handful of U.S.-based companies—AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM and Google—that lead the industry in terms of market share. That makes sense on one level but tends to obscure numerous other vendors, whose assistance is crucial to enterprises determined to capture the greatest value from their cloud computing […]

The phrase “IT modernization” has been around for well over a decade, but what does the concept mean? Often, it is simply a sales pitch by IT vendors who hope prospects will swap out aging systems for fresh equipment. But on a more nuanced level, it underscores the pressing need for businesses to invest in […]

Strategic partnerships are vitally important for a wide variety of enterprise IT vendors. While conventional wisdom once held that enterprises were best served by integrated, single-vendor solutions, those offerings tended to increase companies’ reliance on a handful of large suppliers and reduce their access to innovative new technologies. In contrast, hardware vendors that develop products […]