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TREND ANALYSIS: The reason that the mainframe has thrived for well over a half century is because IBM has reinvented it time and again to support the evolving needs and business requirements of its enterprise customers. More evolution is coming.

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eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems…

eWEEK DATA POINTS: Much of the responsibility to maintain business applications and the networks running them has fallen on the shoulders of a relatively new segment called endpoint management. Here's the lowdown on this important new sector.

TREND ANALYSIS: One of the development efforts that isn’t as obvious is one that is also multivendor, but no one is really talking about it yet. That is the head-mounted display.

Buyers of IT software, services and hardware should know that there are so many versions of the Linux OS from which to choose, that they should look at distributions that exactly fit the use cases the enterprise deems important.

eWEEK DATA POINTS: With the growing momentum in cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes, Istio and AWS App Mesh, questions about the future of network security, containers and meshes is becoming a really relevant one.

TREND ANALYSIS: There is a lot of development going on in blockchain, cryptocurrency, coins and security tokens and distributed ledgers, as vendors look to improve on basic plumbing of blockchain frameworks like Ethereum and Hyperledger or make their own.

TREND ANALYSIS: Businesses now realize that cloud vendors provide security functionality that can help defend them from attacks perpetuated by large hacking organizations.

New-gen software provider Zinier this week introduced a new product called Intelligent Service Automation and Control (ISAC), an AI-driven platform enabling field service organizations to operate more efficiently.

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: Cloud Elements 3.0 enables APIs to work in uniform ways across hundreds of applications while sharing common data models.

eWEEK DATA POINTS: New IT jobs will require adeptness in relatively new fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. Better get prequalified.

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: Extreme lets customers mix and match to evolve to an autonomous network at their own pace.

eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems…

NEW-PRODUCT ANALYSIS: At its commercial user show, the company unveils products and plans to expand its capabilities in the cloud, at the edge and with hyperscalers.

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: The R3 Series offers massive 400 Gig throughput and density, making it ideal for edge services.

CLOUD ANALYSIS: Here's why the expanded collaboration between Virtustream and Equinix, a provider of private networking solutions for directly connecting enterprise customers with cloud computing platforms, ranks as important in enterprise IT.

eWEEK IT SCIENCE: An insurer was able to transform its decades-old CRM system to deliver self-service for its mobile customers within a matter of days without having to invest millions developing a solution in-house.

eWEEK DATA POINTS: The workplace has become a multi-faceted beast, and the interactive technologies that have been emerging during the past decade have made workplaces more flexible, productive and satisfying in order to solve these issues.

NEW PRODUCT NEWS/ANALYSIS: HyTrust CloudControl 6.0 expands to include VMware vSphere and NSX, the AWS cloud and Kubernetes. The expanded platform addresses problems organizations currently face in trying to secure and ensure compliance of their hybrid,…

What's the best way to determine which type of database or database service is best for your enterprise? It all depends on what type of use case you require. Find out more in this article.

UPDATE: With the publication this week of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes' New York Times article on this topic, eWEEK is re-publishing this Feb. 1 column by longtime Contributing Editor Wayne Rash, which predated Hughes' article by more than two months.

TREND ANALYSIS: World's largest software maker demonstrates new speech-to-text product plus other innovations, including new digital assistants, that may turn out to be game-changers.

As more enterprises look to hybrid and multicloud solutions, Nutanix hopes to win them over with enhancements to its hyperconverged infrastructure solution that includes an easier way to deploy and manage third-party storage and recovery.

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: Ordr’s Systems Control Engine uses artificial intelligence to help companies manage and secure IoT deployments.

COMPANY PROFILE: The ExperienceAvaya event in Singapore revealed a number of things most IT buyers aren’t aware of about the company but are helpful to know.

Despite market uncertainty, business spending sentiment is increasing in aggregate across industries and within retail and financial services, according to a study of cumulative transaction data.

How does an enterprise select a managed services provider to handle important integrations of business apps and services to the cloud? Decision-makers can start by reading a side-by-side account of the market leaders in this eWEEK Top Companies article.

COMPANY ANALYSIS: At Dell Technologies World, Dell shows it’s a much different company than it was just a few years ago.

Nearly five years after Red Hat last released a major version update, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now generally available, providing organizations with new features to help manage modern application deployment infrastructure.