AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM all take different approaches to extending their clouds to customers’ own data centers.

The startup has container security capabilities that are missing in Red Hat's OpenShift Kubernetes platform.

The cloud professional services firm has AWS, Azure, GCP certifications, helping enterprises go cloud-native.

As the focus on IBM's hybrid cloud causes Big Blue to spin off a large part of its traditional business, Red Hat becomes essential to the aging giant's future.

Although Istio 1.8 is technically a minor point release, it brings many new features and improvements to the table.

Legacy IT services business, whose day-to-day operations include managing client data centers, will be hit hardest.

“This is one of the last quarters where IBM’s lagging hardware business will drag down performance."

IBM's Cloud Pak for Security now includes all pillars of threat management, including detection, investigation and response, and streamlines response efforts.

The move is expected to make IBM more of a software company and less of a low-growth services vendor.