IBM walking away from single cloud focus deserves ‘huge respect’ says Red Hat

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Red Hat and IBM executives leading the Canadian business opened up about last year’s $34 billion deal that saw the two tech companies tie the knot and place an enormous bet on hybrid cloud.
While IBM has its own public cloud that delivers Watson, analytics tools and even quantum computing through it, it hasn’t been enough to gain significant market share when compared to AWS and Azure.
That’s why Big Blue decided to shift its focus and lean on Red Hat to become a leading cloud management player instead.
Antoun was joined by Red Hat country manager Claude Reeves to speak with reporters at the IBM Canada Think Summit in Toronto.
Antoun joked that his services team has had to convince job applicants that they weren’t joking when they said IBM was looking specifically for people who could manage Azure among other cloud services.
An IBM-commissioned study by McKinsey & Company shows that most enterprises are only 20 per cent of the way into their journey towards some form of cloud architecture.
Because of these concerns, among others, IBM is confident that hybrid cloud solutions will be met with open arms by a substantial number of customers.
IBM also revealed its plans to launch a new IBM Cloud Computing“>Cloud multizone region (MZR) in Canada by the end of 2020, the company’s first MZR in the country.
Located in Toronto, the new MZR will help clients consistently access IBM public cloud services and embark on a hybrid cloud strategy.
Every since the US$34 billion mega-deal went through, IBM and Red Hat have frequently described themselves as the leader in open source and open cloud technologies.
Yet even Microsoft, one of IBM’s biggest competitors in the cloud arena, has embraced open source software.
So when asked how is IBM and Red Hat more open than Microsoft – or even Amazon and Google Cloud, both of which have made similar claims – Claude said it comes down to hidden agendas.
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