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eWEEK IT HARDWARE ANALYSIS: Since the System z15 launch on Sept. 12, 2019, IBM has reported that it has "shipped the highest MIPS (millions of instructions per second – a measure of raw compute power being used on Z mainframes) in history in Q4 2019, driven by growth in new workloads." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK Q&A: Stephen Leonard has a rather big job at IBM: He is responsible for the development, sales and marketing of the company's Power Systems solutions, as well as offerings for cloud computing platforms and data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TREND ANALYSIS: The future of commercial supercomputing may finally be near. Despite years of rosy predictions, significant CAPEX investments and painful energy related OPEX costs have limited businesses' interest in these solutions. With Pangea III, IBM has proven that it can successfully deliver topline performance with bottom-line benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the plan by information technology (IT) company International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to develop cloud platforms and application. Topics mentioned include the business revenue of the company, the development of cloud data centers, and the information technology (IT) systems and products by the company.

The article reports that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) opened four new BlueMix cloud data centers in the U.S. The new data centers in the U.S. will provide clients with infrastructure designed for running workloads and will offer access to Internet of Thing (IoT), blockchain, quantum and Watson services through IBM Bluemix.

The article reports that Bryson Koehler, chief technical officer (CTO) of IBM Watson and IBM Cloud, and John Considine, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) general manager for cloud infrastructure, spoke about upgrading its existing data center infrastructure to handle the demands of cognitive computing and enterprise workloads at the IBM InterConnect conference. They told customers that Cloud Native applications that are designed and optimized to run in the cloud are in their future.

The article informs that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Cisco Systems have combined their efforts to create a set of new industry solutions for VersaStack, their jointly-developed converged data center infrastructure package. The VersaStack portfolio includes various new solutions including infrastructure automation to accelerate the delivery of Information Technology applications and improve manageability, protection and storage of data.

The article discusses the cloud partnership between technology companies IBM and VMware. It notes that their partnership serves as an evidence of customers' eagerness to adopt hybrid cloud environments. Their extended partnership was announced at IBM InterConnect 2016 in February, and through this partnership, customers will be able to extend their existing workloads from their on-premise software-defined data center (SDDC) to the IBM cloud.

The article discusses importance of the partnership between computer services firm International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and enterprise software platform Box. Topics discussed include views of Frank Gans, chief analyst for market researcher IDC, plans of the companies to develop new-generation applications enabling work groups to complete enterprise projects, and providing IBM's international data centers and services to Box customers.

The article offers information on planning of advancing in cloud infrastructure, by U.S. software firm, IBM. Topics discussed include opening of data centers by IBM's subsidiary SoftLayer Technologies at various places, views on the same by Robert LeBlanc, vice president at IBM and comments on the same by Phil Jackson, lead technologist at SoftLayer firm.

The article reports on the Power Systems servers launched by IBM on April 23, 2014, which allow data centers to manage big data requirements with improved performance.