Tag: IBM

  • IBM Offers Cloud Training, Resources to Partners

    Ericka Chickowski

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    This week IBM locked its targets in on enabling its channel to take better advantage of the cloud by rolling out a new initiative that it says will provide partners the means to improve their cloud skill sets and minimize the steps required to start selling cloud-based solutions. Offered initially as a pilot program to… Read more

  • Mayor Bloomberg: NYC Challenges Silicon Valley for Tech Startups

    Channel Insider Staff

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    NEW YORK New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he believes New York could soon replace Silicon Valley as the go-to location for high-tech startups to sprout. Speaking at IBM s THINK Forum here, also known as “THINK: A Forum on the Future of Leadership,” Bloomberg said New York has replaced Boston as the second-place… Read more

  • Arrow ECS Launches Empower Enablement Program for Business Analytics

    Jennifer Lawinski

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    Arrow ECS is launching a new partner-enablement program, called Empower, to help solution providers sell data center technologies, beginning with business intelligence and analytics solutions from IBM.  Under the Empower enablement program, Arrow ECS, a division of Englewood, Colo.-based Arrow Electronics, will offer partners technology solutions, opportunity analyses, education, demand-generation services and business resources to… Read more

  • IBM Helps SMBs Grow With $1 Billion in Financing

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Technology giant IBM is reaching out to small and midsize businesses with $1 billion in financing to help credit-qualified companies over the next 18 months take advantage of a new suite of advanced technologies such as analytics and cloud. The effort is designed to help SMBs spur innovation and drive economic growth by making credit… Read more

  • IBM Snaps Up Risk Analytics Firm Algorithmics

    Nathan Eddy

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    Technology giant IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Algorithmics for $387 million, subject to price adjustments at closing. Algorithmics is a risk analytics firm with operations in Toronto. The company’s risk analytics software, content and advisory services are used by banking, investment and insurance businesses to help assess risk, address regulatory requirements and make… Read more

  • IBM to Acquire i2 to Accelerate Big Data Analytics

    Nathan Eddy

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    Technology giant IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2, a provider of intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention based in Cambridge, UK with U.S. headquarters in McLean, Va., to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms of the… Read more