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The next wave of payments modernization: Minimizing complexity to elevate customer experience

The payments ecosystem is at an inflection point for transformation, especially as we see the rise of disruptive digital entrants who are introducing new payment methods, such as cryptocurrency and central bank digital currencies (CDBC). With more choices for customers, capturing share of wallet is becoming more competitive for traditional banks. This is just one […]

The tsunami of sustainability disclosures facing American multinationals: Is your company prepared?

Globally, there has been an uptick of landmark regulations forcing companies to address sustainability issues like climate change, and to disclose the work they are doing to address these issues. On July 31, 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and published them as “final rules” for the Corporate Sustainability […]

Multicloud connectivity for regulated industry workloads on IBM Cloud

Figure 1: IBM Cloud connected to other clouds and enterprise networks. As enterprises modernize and migrate workloads to IBM Cloud, they often run into requirements that certain components of their application workloads to run on other cloud service provider networks. These requirements create a technical challenge for enterprises—especially in regulated industries (e.g., insurance, banking, healthcare, […]

From Good to Great: The Transformative Influence of Executive Leadership

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis Executive leaders set the vision and direction for the organization, create a culture of trust and collaboration, and motivate and inspire employees to achieve their goals. They are also responsible for making tough decisions and taking risks. Good leadership is essential for any […]

Ubotica partners with IBM for one-click deployment of space AI applications

Space AI leader Ubotica Technologies is partnering with IBM to leverage IBM cloud infrastructure and watsonx.ai components, intending to simplify the process for a developer to get their application running onboard a satellite. With a single click, mutual customers will be able to securely deploy their AI models directly to satellites that use the Ubotica […]

Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

In July, we announced the preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new capability for developers to create generative AI applications that complete tasks. Today, I’m happy to introduce a new capability to securely connect foundation models (FMs) to your company data sources using agents. With a knowledge base, you can use agents to give […]

Unlock innovation today and for tomorrow with a future-ready digital infrastructure

As the digital revolution gains momentum, we’ve seen that businesses worldwide are intensifying their efforts to deliver intelligent and seamless digital experiences by leveraging data-driven automation. I have seen how the gradual pace of digital transformation over the past decade has now given way to a comprehensive, large-scale digital reinvention. Consequently, a new approach to […]

Debunking observability myths – Part 5: You can create an observable system without observability-driven automation

In our blog series, we’ve debunked the following observability myths so far: Part 1: You can skip monitoring and rely solely on logs Part 2: Observability is built exclusively for SREs Part 3: Observability is only relevant and beneficial for large-scale systems or complex architectures Part 4: Observability is always expensive In this post, we’ll tackle another fallacy […]

Connecting Your IoT Ecosystem to the Cloud with MQTT

MQTT, an acronym for Message Queuing Telemetry Transport, is a lightweight, publish-subscribe network protocol that transports messages between devices. It was designed for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency, or unreliable networks. The design principles are to minimize network bandwidth and device resource requirements while ensuring reliability and some degree of assurance of delivery. MQTT is […]