Tag: IBM

  • 10 Things Incoming IBM CEO Rometty to Keep IBM Successful

    10 Things Incoming IBM CEO Rometty to Keep IBM Successful
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    10 Things Incoming IBM CEO Rometty to Keep IBM Successful 1. Continue the Cloud PushOne of the most important aspects of IBM’s business over the years has been the cloud. And it would be a huge mistake for Rometty to simply turn her back on that. It’s clear now that future of IBM’s business in… Read more

  • Incoming IBM CEO Virginia Rometty 10 Career Facts

    Incoming IBM CEO Virginia Rometty 10 Career Facts
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    Incoming IBM CEO Virginia Rometty 10 Career Facts Rometty currently works as senior vice president and group executive of IBM Sales, Marketing and Strategy, a role that has had her directly accountable to Palmisano for IBM’s $99 billion in revenue. No Title Rometty has hardly flown under the radar prior to the announcement–she’s made Fortune… Read more

  • IBM Names Virginia Rometty as New CEO

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    Virginia Rometty, IBM’s senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company’s next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel Palmisano, who is retiring at the end of the year. As the new CEO, Rometty not only takes over one of the world’s largest and most important tech companies, but she… Read more

  • IBM, Apple: Stark Contrasts in CEO Succession

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    IBM and Apple, both hugely successful companies that are undergoing a change in top leadership, are a study in contrasts when looking at their CEOs and how they re replacing them, according to analysts. Apple for more than a decade was led by the charismatic Steve Jobs, who co-founded the company in the 1970s, was… Read more

  • IBM Launches New Software to Tackle ‘Big Data’

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    IBM has announced new software to deliver "big data" analytics to users on a variety of devices and platforms. At its Information on Demand (IoD) 2011 conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 24, IBM unveiled new offerings that span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices… Read more

  • IBM Introduces SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government

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    IBM has announced new services converging social networking and cloud computing for the federal government. At a recent FedTalks event in Washington, D.C., IBM introduced its new offering known as SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government. Initially previewed in July, this new offering is a cloud-based service that combines social collaboration tools and email to… Read more