Category: IBM

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IBM Jumps Salesforce to Join Microsoft, Amazon in Cloud Revenue Top 3

July 20, 2021
With solid if unspectacular Q2 cloud revenue up 13% to $7 billion, IBM has pushed past Salesforce to join Microsoft and Amazon as the world’s top 3 cloud-revenue generators. While that’s an impressive achievement by IBM, on my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings the company continues to hold the #9 spot, primarily due to
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IBM + SAP: Experience = Speed | Howard Boville, IBM Hybrid Cloud SVP

June 9, 2021
Howard Boville left his job as CTO at Bank of America about a year ago to join IBM as senior VP of hybrid cloud. Boville sat down with Cloud Wars Live to discuss the big changes he’s been driving at IBM Cloud, the booming market for industry clouds that he’s been aggressively championing within IBM
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SAP and IBM logos side by side

As SAP Downgrades Microsoft Relationship, IBM Rushes In

June 4, 2021
With the SAP-Microsoft romance cooling way off as Microsoft has become a significant direct competitor to SAP, a newly assertive and re-energized IBM is moving in to extend and enrich its 50-year strategic relationship with SAP. On my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings, Microsoft is the longtime #1, SAP is #5 and IBM is
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Wealth of Riches: IBM Cloud CTO Hillery Hunter

May 24, 2021
This episode brought to you by IBM.  In this episode of Cloud Wars Live, I spoke with one of the top technologists at IBM, VP and Cloud CTO Hillery Hunter. She shared some wide-ranging perspectives on rising customer expectations, industry clouds, cybersecurity, the rising awareness of and interest in "distributed cloud" and other compelling topics.
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IBM SVP Howard Boville: Unleashing the Cloud

May 10, 2021
Just over a year ago, Howard Boville left his job as CTO at Bank of America to join IBM as senior VP of hybrid cloud. Boville joined Cloud Wars Live to discuss the big changes he's been driving at IBM Cloud, the booming market for industry clouds that he's been aggressively championing within IBM, and
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IBM SVP Howard Boville speaks about industry clouds in a video presentation

IBM Cloud Renaissance: General-Purpose Clouds Out, Industry Clouds In

May 10, 2021
Considering the impact former Bank of America CTO Howard Boville has had in just his first year as senior VP of IBM Cloud, perhaps some other big cloud providers will seriously consider adding customers to their executive ranks.  IBM is #9 on my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings, and is #7 on my new
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IBM Shocker: Q4 Cloud Growth Plummets to 8%

January 27, 2021
While Microsoft and Amazon are likely to report Q4 cloud-revenue growth rates of 30% or more, and while red-hot Google Cloud could come in at 40% or above, IBM last week said the growth rate for its cloud business plummeted in Q4 to 8%. And in the wickedly competitive Cloud Wars, 8% growth means you’re
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna

Can IBM Soar in 2021? 10 Big Opportunities, 4 Very Tough Challenges

December 9, 2020
IBM’s cloud business is in a terrific position to have a breakout year in 2021, but that all depends on its willingness and ability to fully commit its full resources to the cloud rather than just repeating “Red Hat!” and hoping that does the trick. To get the full story, please check out our in-depth
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