Technology News and Product Updates
American Tower and IBM to Bring Edge Cloud Services to Enterprises for Enhanced Innovation and Customer Experiences
IBM announced a new collaboration with American Tower, a global digital infrastructure provider, to accelerate the deployment of a hybrid, multi-cloud computing platform at the edge. Through this collaboration, American Tower plans to expand its neutral-host, Access Edge Data Center ecosystem to include IBM Hybrid Cloud capabilities and Red Hat OpenShift. Read the announcement.
IDC believes IBM is well-positioned to usher in an era of Xaas.
With IBM’s combination of hardware, software, cloud enablement, and ecosystem partnerships, IDC believes IBM is well-positioned to usher in an era of XaaS.
· Read the IDC: Digital Transformation in the Era of AI Drives Interest in XaaS.
· Read the Moor Strategy & Insight Report: Conquering the last mile of digital transformation
· Read the blog: Want to be a hybrid cloud winner? The recipe for XaaS success for more resources on this topic.
NatWest and IBM Collaborate on Generative AI Initiative to Enhance Customer Experience
NatWest and IBM announced enhancements to the bank's virtual assistant, Cora, that will use generative AI to provide customers with access to a wider range of information through conversational interactions. Read the announcement.
Try Watsonx for free on IBM Cloud.
How IBM and VMware are helping clients modernize workloads
Read the announcement to know more about the launch of a new partner-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions as part of the VMware Cross-Cloud managed service initiative.
IBM Connected Trade Platform helps power the digitization of trade and supply chain financing.
Read the blog to understand how IBM is helping to digitize trade finance with a platform approach by sourcing digitally native business-process capabilities from multiple fintechs and a plug-and-play integration framework for banking-specific backend systems to enable the flow of financial transactions from the front office to the back office.
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