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Cisco Invests in Spark Service Ecosystem for UCaaS
As part of an effort to boost the application ecosystem surrounding its new unified communications-as-a-service offering, Cisco at the Enterprise Connect 2016 conference announced it is making $150 million available to either directly invest in an application developer or help jointly develop and support an application. Cisco also announced that is has acquired Synata, which…
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Fast Facts You Should Know About IBM Initiatives
Fast Facts You Should Know About IBM Initiatives Fast Facts You Should Know About IBM Initiatives It’s a new epoch for IBM, which aims to sprint ahead of other tech companies in its path. IBM looks for partners that can sell innovative tech solutions. Four Partner Program Levels IBM has added a new platinum partner…
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Inside the IBM Cloud Video Strategy
For all the hype surrounding the explosive growth of unstructured data, the simple truth of the matter is video accounts for as much as 70 percent of that growth. Not only are people consuming more online video content than ever, but a broad range of applications are starting to incorporate video, as well. To get…
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Acquisition of Ingram Micro Draws Intense Scrutiny
The IT channel in the United States just got a startling reminder of how truly global the economy has become with the acquisition of Ingram Micro by a $90 billion Chinese conglomerate. The Tianjin Tianhau Investment Co., an arm of HNA Group, a multinational company with interests in a number of shipping companies and an…
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IBM Offers Up $5M Watson Solutions Prize
At the TED2016 conference this week, IBM and XPRIZE, a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions to create innovative IT solutions, announced that they will jointly award a $5 million prize to the team that best shows how humans can collaborate with cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as IBM Watson. With the…
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How IBM Aims to Simplify Partnering
ORLANDO, Fla.—While IBM is moving to make it simpler for partners not only to sell a broader range of complementary products, the tech giant is developing a series of services that can only be resold by partners. At the IBM PartnerWorld 2016 conference here this week, the company announced that beginning in January 2017 it…
