• IBM's Watson: From game shows to game changer in the enterprise

  By Rohan Pearce | 22 May, 2013 10:38

  IBM's Watson artificial intelligence technology – perhaps most famous for its 2011 victory in US game show Jeopardy! – will be used by ANZ Bank to deliver faster financial recommendations to customers.

• IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot

  By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 16:51

  Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies better field customer phone calls.

• BMC set to go private in $US6.9 billion deal

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 May, 2013 15:02

  BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.

• Apple breaks into Fortune 500's top 10

  By Gregg Keizer | 06 May, 2013 14:41

  Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP.

• H-1B reform debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers

  By Grant Gross | 03 May, 2013 13:02

  Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran IT workers question their motives for wanting to increase the number of visas under the controversial H-1B program.

• Will Fault Tolerant Servers Improve Your Virtualized Environment?

  By John Moore | 30 April, 2013 12:39

  Companies are turning to fault tolerant servers as a way to improve uptime without experiencing the downtime associated with high availability solutions. But fault tolerant technology may not be right for every enterprise.

• What to expect at SAP's Sapphire

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 May, 2013 17:32

  SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applications, in-memory computing and mobility.

• BMC going private could be the right move at the right time

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 May, 2013 19:57

  BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.

• Opinion: Why Apple won't be around as long as IBM

  By Rob Enderle | 03 May, 2013 16:39

  IBM is 102 years old. At its height, it was almost a cult, with employees dressing alike, speaking a unique language and earning benefits that took care of them for life. Today's tech companies aren't built to last, as Apple's recent earnings report shows all too well.

• What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 April, 2013 18:32

  IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

• Cloud computing's big debt to NASA

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 08 March, 2013 11:08

  IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises.

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