On January 21, 2016, IBM acquired Ustream, a leading live and on-demand video solution company, to propel its cloud service business. This acquisition will make IBM capable of providing enterprise live video stream service to the world. With this, a new member joining the IBM cloud service family.Ustream provides cloud-based video streaming to enterprises and broadcasters for everything from corporate keynotes to live music concerts. The company streams live and on-demand video to about 80 million viewers per month for customers such as NASA, Samsung, Facebook, Nike, HBO and The Discovery Chan...

IBM has over 100 year's history and it faced many tough challenges along the way but every time it came back successfully. This time its revenue dropped 6 quarters consecutively, with the popularity of cloud computing and big data, IBM seems lag behind and is heavily hit by the storm. Its current technologies are only suitable for serving traditional companies 15 years ago but not companies now. Can IBM go though this challenge and come back again?It seems IBM doesn't want to be left out. There are some big movements recently wchih indicate IBM is taking its biggest transformation since early ...

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd had an interview with Chinese media in San Francisco on 19th April. Mark Hurd first introduced different levels of Oracle's overall strategy: 1) the product must achieve best among similar products; 2) system open, vertical integration to provide customers with maximum performance; 3) Industry specific solutions; 4) give users the right to choose and the integration of the cloud environment (private cloud, public cloud, mixed cloud). In addition, Mark Hurd share his own views about a few hot topics.1. Acquisition strategy: an important supplement to R & D / product sy...