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By Rajeev Saxena and John Connolly on 12 May, 2020
Ensuring Business Continuity Across VMware Workloads
Announcing a 90-day, $500 USD credit for getting started with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared. In this unprecedented time, businesses must quickly adjust and embrace the situation at hand while ensuring business operations remain constant and reliable. Whether that includes implementing a business continuity strategy, temporarily migrating critical workloads to the cloud, or quickly […]
By Ian Moyse and Tom Naxton on 6 May, 2020
Making smart cloud choices in uncertain times
Cloud is often portrayed as the easy solution to today’s business challenges – the one big shift that saves costs all round. Many believe that, when it comes to cloud, any choice is a smart choice. Here we discuss the realities of choosing the right cloud for your business, and why one cloud does not […]
By Mark Pulling on 12 May, 2020
Ensuring Business Continuity Across VMware Workloads
Announcing a 90-day, $500 USD credit for getting started with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared. In this unprecedented time, businesses must quickly adjust and embrace the situation at hand while ensuring business operations remain constant and reliable. Whether that includes implementing a business continuity strategy, temporarily migrating critical workloads to the cloud, or quickly […]
By Neil Cattermull and Jamie Frampton on 29 April, 2020
Modernising with cloud technologies: do nothing, do something – or do the right thing
In this brave new world of heavily technology-driven organisations, where recent events have shown that organisations need to respond rapidly in uncertain times, we have become accustomed to gathering vast amounts of data and employing systems to control and manipulate it. Often, our goal is to build more efficient practices and concepts. But what about […]
By Jonathan Moss on 5 March, 2020
Building a trusted foundation of data to help grow the game of rugby in England
The RFU and IBM have been on a journey of digital transformation since they extended their partnership in 2018. The public-facing element of this has been a project to consolidate and refresh their digital properties including www.englandrugby.com to improve the experience for rugby fans and community players alike. You can read more about that journey […]
By Dr. Lloyd L Dale on 26 February, 2020
Command Centre of the Future
In this blog I’m going to write about the Command Centre of the Future. Before I do, I’ll describe a typical contemporary Command Centre’s attributes. Let’s play Command Centre Bingo and see how many of these attributes you may have also observed: 1) The Command Centre is manned by a large team of Operators who […]
By Dr. Lloyd L Dale on 14 January, 2020
Implementing Cloud Service Management Capability
In blog #3 I described the key process, organisation and tool capabilities required for Cloud Service Management. In this blog I’ll focus on how to implement these capabilities. At this stage the Service Management Target Operating Model has been defined and the next step is to implement the enabling capabilities in order to transition to […]
By Samuel Fry on 20 December, 2019
Artificial Intelligence to Create Art
Reflections on the Artists on Artificial Intelligence event, run by Lumen Art Projects at IBM Southbank on how to use artificial intelligence to create art. When technologists and artists challenge each other, we build more innovative experiences. This was the reason that IBM recently hosted a Lumen Art Projects event called ‘Artists on Artificial Intelligence’ […]
By Dr. Lloyd L Dale on 10 December, 2019
Key Capabilities required for Cloud Service Management
My previous blog described the core Service Management functions required to deliver cloud as a service. This blog expands that description by highlighting the key tool, process and organisation capabilities required to enable those functions. Without these capabilities an IT department will not be able to effectively or efficiently operate a cloud service in a […]
By Dr. Lloyd L Dale on 13 November, 2019
Best Practice Cloud Service Management
In my last blog I wrote about the impact of cloud computing on IT Service Management. This blog continues the theme by describing the IT Service Management functions necessary to deliver cloud infrastructure services. Delivering infrastructure as a service requires IT Service Management to move closer to Infrastructure Management (or IT Operations) and combine multiple […]
By Dr. Lloyd L Dale on 28 October, 2019
Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Service Management
You wouldn’t be completely wrong if you made this general comment regarding most organisations’ cloud infrastructure strategy, “use public cloud services for Test and Development environments and develop an on-premise IaaS for Production environments.” This relatively simple approach is borne out of the need for IT Infrastructure Management to be more responsive to Development Projects […]
By Kevin Gill on 11 October, 2019
Helping to bring trust to the blockchain
As smart contracts and blockchain technology reshape the way customers and businesses interact, establishing trust in data is essential. Enterprises are now seeking to manage data as an asset so it is vital that data sources are trusted and verifiable. Blockchain technology is providing an immutable and indelible shared record of events across business networks. But what happens […]
By Rob Sedman on 8 October, 2019
THINK – How will you respond to a data breach?
In a period of unprecedented change, staying connected to technology trends has never been more important. And there’s no better forum for the latest (and future) insights than Think Summit London, IBM’s annual festival of innovation. On the 16th October 2019, you will have the chance to experience how IBM is channelling research and technology […]
By Emmanuel Treny and David Terrar on 7 October, 2019
Breaking Down Silos in your Business
Every organisation in every sector is dealing with digital disruption in today’s volatile, fast changing and uncertain world. Businesses need to transform to stay competitive or be in danger of going the way of once great brands like Nokia, Blockbuster or Kodak who saw the writing on the wall but didn’t act fast enough to […]
By Samuel Fry on 3 October, 2019
Artists on Artificial Intelligence
IBM is working with Lumen Art Projects to develop knowledge sharing between artists and technologists. Companies everywhere are collaborating to solidify their competitive advantage. This is something that our report on ‘Becoming a Cognitive Enterprise’ describes, as companies are developing these collaborations as a way of reinventing their businesses, expanding their expertise or competing in […]