When it comes to driving large technology transformation on Cloud, leveraging existing investments, and optimizing open innovation within the larger ecosystem with a hybrid cloud platform, IBM Consulting™ offers several learnings to help organizations address the architecture and technology challenge.  Consider large financial services organization going through core banking modernization. The core banking application landscape involves […]

IBM Consulting has established a Center of Excellence for generative AI. It stands alongside IBM Consulting’s existing global AI and Automation practice, which includes 21,000 data and AI consultants who have conducted over 40,000 enterprise client engagements. The Center of Excellence (CoE) already has more than 1,000 consultants with specialized generative AI expertise that are […]

If you’re an IT professional—from the C-suite to a hands-on practitioner—you know the pressure your IT operations (ITOps) are under. You’re responsible for optimizing spend, operational efficiency and incorporating new and innovative technologies. But are your tools slowing you down? Coined by research firm Gartner, AIOps is artificial intelligence for IT operations. It is the […]

In today’s interconnected world, online privacy has become an increasingly important issue. With the ever-increasing amount of data being shared and stored online, it has become essential to take measures to protect one’s personal information. Encryption and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are two powerful tools that can be used to enhance online privacy and security. […]

We are excited to announce the availability of Kubernetes version 1.27 for your clusters that are running in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. This is our 22nd release of Kubernetes. With our Kubernetes service, you can easily upgrade your clusters without the need for deep Kubernetes knowledge. When you deploy new clusters, the default Kubernetes version […]

In an era of evolving consumer preferences and economic uncertainties, the beverage industry stands as a vibrant reflection of changing trends and shifting priorities. Despite the challenges posed by inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, a dichotomy has emerged in consumer behavior, where individuals untouched by the crisis continue to indulge in their favorite beverages, while […]

Every day, people encounter multiple obstacles while traveling to their intended destinations. Sitting in traffic, waiting for the bus to arrive 15 minutes later than scheduled, driving around for 30 minutes to find a parking spot—the modern world is full of inconveniences due to underlying inefficiencies in our transportation systems. However, stalled cars and harried […]

A conversation with David Anandraj, manager of Product Management for the ecommerce segment of BCM One People like to think that everything we do is text based and that phones have much less value. But as David Anandraj says, “when it matters, you call and when you call, you want to reach someone…” Listen to […]

Here are your AWS updates from the previous 7 days. Last week I was in Turin, Italy for CloudConf, a conference I’ve had the pleasure to participate in for the last 10 years. AWS Hero Anahit Pogosova was also there sharing a few serverless tips in front of a full house. Here’s a picture I […]

Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) has been used to connect distributed networks for decades. This post describes how to use a VPC VPN Gateway to connect an on-premises (enterprise) network to the IBM Cloud VPC in a transit hub-and-spoke architecture: VPN Gateway connectivity to a VPC transit hub and spoke. Each spoke can be operated […]