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IBM defends open hybrid approach to cloud, as its market share drops again
IBM has brushed aside its drop in public cloud market share rankings and insists its open hybrid approach, along with an enterprise legacy, places it well for a future where data and workload portability will be paramount. The company dropped to fifth in public cloud market share this month, ceding

Adobe, IBM and Red Hat Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance CX Transformation
Adobe, IBM and Red Hat announced a strategic partnership that they say will help accelerate digital transformation and strengthen real-time data security for enterprises, with a focus on regulated industries. The intent of the partnership is to enable companies to deliver more personalised experiences across the customer journey, driving improved

New CEO Keeps Red Hat on Open Hybrid Cloud Course
Red Hat’s new CEO says his appointment won’t change the company’s ongoing “open hybrid cloud” strategy. Paul Cormier, a long time Red Hat employee who took over as CEO following Jim Whitehurst’s departure to new owner IBM, used this year’s virtual keynote to recommit the open source giant to meeting

Paul Cormier to lead Red Hat
Red Hat today announced Paul Cormier as its new president and CEO, effective immediately. Cormier takes the reins of the open source giant following long time CEO Jim Whitehurst’s move to new Red Hat owner IBM earlier this year. Cormier joined Red Hat in 2001 and is credited with pioneering

Rometty to retire in IBM shakeup
Virginia “Ginni” Rometty is stepping down from her role as CEO of IBM and will retire at the end of the year after nearly 40 years at the company. She will be replaced as CEO by current IBM SVP for cloud and cognitive software Arvind Krishna on April 6th, who

Red Hat and SAS partner on enterprise analytics
Open source software company Red Hat and long running analytics firm SAS have extended their partnership to create “best-in-class hybrid cloud analytics”. Today SAS announced it will deliver its analytics tools on Red Hat OpenShift, the company’s enterprise Kubernetes platform. Earlier this year Red Hat released it latest iteration of

Optus is using AI to make customers’ calls ‘programmable’
Optus is developing an AI application to automatically transcribe and analyse customers’ calls. The capability was debuted in America earlier this year as a live translation service but is currently being piloted as a tool to assist contact centre agents. “What that technology gives us is an ability to [do]

12-week agile sprints helped change our entire IT culture, says Heritage Bank CIO
Needing to deliver a brand new IT project – Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP) – within a tight timeframe, Heritage Bank turned outward for help. But rather than ask a consultancy or look for off the shelf products, the bank asked an open source software company for help. Australia’s largest

We are an open source company: Microsoft AU CTO
Microsoft Australia’s technology chief, Lee Hickin, today declared the company’s commitment to open source software while speaking at an event hosted by one time adversary and open source giant, Red Hat. Microsoft has evolved into an open source company as it transformed, Hickin said, and around half of the services

IBM finalises $34 billion Red Hat acquisition
Red Hat is now officially part of IBM. The acquisition finally closed overnight after getting the green light from EU regulators at the end of June. IBM announced its intention to buy Red Hat in October 2018 in an all cash deal worth US $34 billion, making it one of