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Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Earned an A+ for His Debut Quarter

July 24, 2020

On Jan. 30—before the world had even a thought about masks, social distancing, ventilators and WFH—IBM announced that longtime top technologist Arvind Krishna would take over as CEO on April 6. But when that date arrived, Krishna had much more to deal with than COVID’s repercussions as the low-growth tech icon’s all-in bet on Red

IBM and SAP logos matched up to represent their partnership

SAP and IBM Team Up to Help Customers Avoid Extinction

June 26, 2020

As the pace of change continues to soar and the timetable to transformation shrinks, SAP and IBM are rolling out a broad array of data-driven services to help customers innovate and thrive rather than stagnate and go away. Building on a partnership launched half a century ago, IBM and SAP are calling this new initiative

The CEOs of Oracle, IBM, and Amazon - which will acquire Zoom?

Who Will Acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, or IBM?

June 5, 2020

As the story of Zoom’s phenomenal growth spreads, and as the video-conferencing services it provides become not just mainstream but essential, which company in the Cloud Wars Top 10 will snap up Zoom to become more relevant in the digital future? Cloud Wars Top 10 Rankings — June 1, 2020 1. Microsoft — Its Top 10

A supercomputer, which is key to IBM's coronavirus response

IBM Battles COVID-19: $200 Million Worth of AI, Analytics & Computing Power

April 24, 2020

While brand-new CEO Arvind Krishna had a slew of urgent business messages to convey during IBM’s Q1 earnings call this week, he also wisely made time to outline the iconic company’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. Based in the northern suburbs of New York but with a large presence in the city as well, IBM

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who recently spoke on the company's Q1 earnings call

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Shares Powerful Vision for $1.2 Trillion Hybrid Cloud

April 21, 2020

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna yesterday laid out a clear and compelling strategy for how and why IBM’s $22-billion cloud business has become not only IBM’s engine for growth but also its strategic foundation for the next decade. Two weeks into his new role, Krishna used yesterday’s Q1 earnings call to address two enormous issues. First,

How IBM’s New CEO Plans to Beat Microsoft, Amazon & Google in Cloud

April 14, 2020

While IBM’s way behind its big cloud rivals in growth rates and perceived status, it can beat bigger and better-positioned cloud rivals Microsoft, Amazon and Google by “winning the architectural wars,” says new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. In a recent interview with CNBC’s Jon Fortt, Krishna made the case that the deep-tech trio of Linux,

Will IBM’s New CEO Shake Up the Company or Simply Shuffle the Pieces?

April 8, 2020

As career-lifer Arvind Krishna takes control of 109-year-old IBM, he faces many big questions. The biggest one is this: is he willing to make disruptive changes in the massive company or will he allow bureaucracy, inertia and deadwood to keep the company forever following the leaders? Krishna's long tenure at IBM (via LinkedIn) While IBM’s

Cloud Wars analyzes the IBM Cloud growth spurt

IBM Cloud’s Big Growth Spurt: 10 Key Numbers

January 23, 2020

While I continue to believe IBM’s cloud resurgence will be short-lived unless CEO Ginni Rometty makes some sweeping changes, the company was certainly able to share some impressive Q4 results. Yesterday, in a piece called Ginni Rometty’s Last Stand: A 5-Point Plan to Reignite IBM’s Growth, I argued that IBM is hamstrung by a corporate

Ginni Rometty’s Last Stand: A 5-Point Plan to Reignite IBM’s Growth

January 22, 2020

While IBM’s Q4 cloud revenue jumped 23% and its $33-billion bet on Red Hat is looking good in these early days, CEO Ginni Rometty cannot afford another post-Q4 dropoff paired with promises of turnarounds looming somewhere down the road. To prevent another such slump, it’s clear that IBM must make some fundamental and structural changes

Can IBM Crush its Silos and Behave Like Customer-Obsessed Startup?

January 15, 2020

(Seventh in a series on the top challenge facing each vendor in the Cloud Wars Top 10.) Two years ago, when IBM reported cloud revenue of $5.5 billion for the 3 months ended Dec. 31, 2017, it became for that quarter the world’s largest cloud-computing vendor—bigger than Microsoft, bigger than Amazon, bigger than everyone.

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