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Will quantum computing ever make sense for the channel?
Quantum computing is predicted to impact multiple aspects of the IT environment, from power consumption to data generation to classical computing tie-ins. Credit: IBM
Despite having been in development for decades, quantum computing largely remains the domain of researchers and scientists, with commonplace commercial use cases still a far-off prospect for IT providers that may one day want to ply their trade in the quantum realm.
However, this might finally be changing, with industry analyst firm Technology Business Research (TBR) suggesting that the quantum computing market will evolve from research-centric to commercial use cases as the technology reaches “quantum advantage” within the next four years.
Editor’s note: Nicole Catchpole is a Senior Analyst with Technology Business Research.
HAMPTON, N.H. – Since Arvind Krishna took the helm as CEO in April, IBM has engaged in a series of acquisitions and partnerships to support its transformative shift to fully embrace an open hybrid cloud strategy. The company is further solidifying the strategy with the announcement that IBM and Palantir are coming together in a partnership that combines AI, hybrid cloud, operational intelligence and data processing into an enterprise offering.
The partnership will leverage Palantir Foundry, a data integration and analysis platform that enables users to easily manage and visualize complex data sets, to create a new solution called Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The new offering, which will be available in March, will leverage AI capabilities to help enterprises further automate data analysis across a wide variety of industries and reduce inherent silos in the process.
IT majors ‘rebadge’ client employees in large outsourcing deals
February 02, 2021
Continue to expand onshore talent The first quarter of 2021 belongs to India-centric information technology (IT) service providers, including Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant, Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro, as they demand considerable attention at the start of year for their sales motions; talent strategies and avenues to new partnerships and intellectual property, according to report by the US-based research firm Technology Business Research (TBR).
In a return to the old-school tactic of ‘rebadging’ wherein a vendor takes over a client’s IT/Business Process department as part of a deal client employees, India-centric vendors have begun winning large outsourcing deals. This is in part because the pendulum has swung back to clients demanding ‘run-the-business’ which naturally favours outsourcing by low-cost offshore IT services vendors, said the report authored by Patrick
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VMware culls staff in rebalancing strategy
Roughly 310 employees across the company to lose their jobs. Credit: Dreamstime
VMware is to lay off roughly 310 employees across the company in what the vendor called a “regular workforce rebalancing” strategy.
According to a spokesperson from the vendor, there has been “a limited number of changes” to its entire workforce, with the cull only affecting around one per cent of its employees.
When asked what the impact would be on its APAC workforce, the spokesperson declined to comment, claiming to
What Servian’s acquisition says about the A/NZ services market
What Servian’s acquisition says about the A/NZ services market
Representing something greater than Cognizant s own aspirations
Linus Lai (IDC) Credit: IDC
US IT services provider Cognizant’s recent acquisition of Servian’s entire workforce shows just how important Australian and New Zealand businesses are for the expansion plans of global services companies.
Earlier in January, Cognizant snapped up the Sydney-headquartered data analytics consultancy firm for an undisclosed amount including its workforce of over 500 across Australia and New Zealand and claimed that the buy was part of its strategy to increase its expertise of data and artificial intelligence (AI), digital engineering, cloud and internet of things (IoT) worldwide.