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• IBM’s new Watson Assistant targets business with ‘white label’ service

  The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.

• Blockchain will be the killer app for supply chain management in 2018

  The distributed ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies is now poised to disrupt supply chain management – especially in the global shipping industry.

• Meg Whitman tells IT leaders everything they need to know about HP Enterprise

  In a recent interview, HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman discusses her firm's RD strategy and how it differentiates itself from other IT vendors in areas including cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure, among others. She also talks about HP's image problem.

• HP fends off Dell as Cloud IT infrastructure demand heightens

  “Cloud IT infrastructure growth continues to outpace the growth of the overall IT infrastructure market."

• INSIGHT: With Watson Analytics, finance revives its entrepreneurial spirit

  "This is a different kind of engagement than IBM has ever had in the past with its end users."

• Which Cloud hosting partner is most likely to win your business?

  Which tech giant is most likely to win significant Cloud hosting projects? Amazon Web Services? Microsoft? IBM?

• INSIGHT: Top 6 things I'd do if I got laid-off by IBM

  “Don't let the layoff win. Instead, consider making it one of the best things that ever happened in your career.”

• Storage wars: EMC vs. IBM vs. Symantec

  Which vendor maintained its position as the leading storage software supplier during 2014?

• HP market strength serves as timely reminder of steady server revenue growth

  "The server market continues to be deeply impacted by the shift to the 3rd Platform and the affect of mobile, cloud, social and big data analytic technologies."

• BlackBerry is laser-focused on the enterprise with BES10

  After encountering problems last year selling its newest smartphones, BlackBerry has shifted to a stronger focus on the enterprise, especially through distribution of its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 mobility management client software.

• How to support Windows XP now that Microsoft isn't

  Official Microsoft support for Windows XP has ended. However, as many as 20 per cent of business endpoints still use the popular operating system. If your company ranks among those still using XP, here's how you can protect your machines from the forthcoming onslaught of security vulnerabilities.

• Lenovo's IBM server deal mimics multi-market growth strategy used by Samsung and others

  Lenovo's deal to buy IBM's x86 server business for $2.3 billion gives the Beijing company another tech segment where it can expand beyond PCs, smartphones, tablets and smart TVs.

• Bringing brains to computers

  For decades, scientists have fantasized about creating robots with brain-like intelligence. This year, researchers tempted by that dream made great progress on achieving what has been called the holy grail of computing.

• Why IBM will win the war with Amazon Web Services

  Amazon dominates the Cloud, but IBM, strengthened by its SoftLayer acquisition, has unleashed a marketing campaign that fires on all cylinders. Whether IBM's Ccloud is, in fact, better may matter less than Amazon's ability to challenge a company that's made many competitors crumble over the past 102 years.

• Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing Cloud app rivals

  When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise Cloud computing.