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• IBM brings hybrid-cloud app services to z/OS mainframes

  IBM has introduced a service for its mainframe customers to create a cloud environment for developing and testing applications.

• Global public cloud Q1 revenue cracks $126B

  Operator and vendor revenues in the global public cloud market reached US$126 billion during the first quarter of 2022, a year-on-year increase of 26 per cent.

• IBM CIO Kathryn Guarini on being Big Blue's first customer

  Kathryn Guarini is taking her expertise in developing emerging technologies to the realities of the business in a role that blends vendor and client.

• IBM adopts ‘Rise with SAP’ for internal ERP cloud move

  IBM will also offer to host clients’ S/4HANA systems on Power servers under the Rise umbrella.

• IBM wants a 4,000 qubit quantum computer by 2025

  IBM lays out a quantum computing roadmap that incorporates classical computer hardware, quantum parallel processing, and error mitigation.

• Post Kyndryl, software and consulting boost IBM financials

  IBM saw revenue rise eight per cent for the first quarter of the year, as demand for its hybrid cloud software and consulting services spiked.

• IBM brings corporate trainer Aventis to the cloud in Singapore

  Singapore-based corporate trainer Aventis Learning Group has partnered with IBM to move its training management system to the cloud.

• Looking back on IBM's game-changing mainframe moments

  The latest generation of IBM mainframes, the z16, is just the most recent chapter of one of the longest running tech success stories.

• IBM’s z16 mainframe boasts on-chip AI acceleration

  IBM is refreshing its mainframe range by putting an artificial intelligence accelerator on the processor and surrounding it with new cryptographic features.

• Modernising the mainframe for the digital era

  The venerable platform continues to run critical applications while looking toward a future of open source, cloud, containers, AI, and much-needed new talent.

• New IBM service aims to secure multi-cloud operations

  Unified Key Orchestrator lets customers integrate multiple security systems into a single managed service across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Ransomware ranks as top cyber attack type with Asia Pacific hit hardest

  Ransomware was the number one attack type in 2021 as phishing and vulnerability exploits were top infection vectors, according to IBM findings.

• Kyndryl and AWS sign global cloud pact

  IBM spin-off and mega managed services provider Kyndryl has signed a global cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• IBM merges ASEAN and A/NZ businesses

  IBM has laid out plans to merge its Australian and New Zealand​ business with its operations in Southeast Asia and Korea to create a business set to cover the entire region, naming it ASEANZK.

• IBM brings new cloud app services to z/OS mainframes

  Big Blue has rolled out two new services that will let customers more easily develop and test mainframe apps as-a-service in a public cloud environment.