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IBM’s foray into public cloud services is through their IBM SmartCloud portfolio. It is targeted at enterprises wanting to move legacy applications into the cloud. It helps them optimize the IT costs and add organizational agility through self provisioning and other features. Yesterday, IBM announced some numbers on the SmartCloud which will give us some insights into where they are headed. According to IBM
- Cloud is expected to deliver $7 billion in revenue by 2015 and cloud revenue nearly tripled from the year before
- More than 1 million enterprise application users are working on the IBM Cloud
- IBM analyzes more than $100 billion in commerce transactions a year in the cloud
- IBM hosts 4.5 million daily client transaction through IBM’s public cloud
They are also pushing their cloud offerings through various verticals like Health Care, Smarter Commerce, etc.. IBM’s current market power is helping them sell their Cloud to these customers. According to IBM, they are successful in selling their IBM Social Business on SmartCloud to healthcare customers because social software not only cuts costs for health care providers, it also helps them better treat their patients. IBM also announced they IBM SmartCloud will be available in Europe in the 3rd quarter of this year.
Disclosure: IBM is a client
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- IBM Expands SmartCloud Capabilities (itproportal.com)
- IBM Advances SmartCloud and Adds New Customers, Partners (eweek.com)
- IBM SmartCloud: As Much Cloud As You Want (informationweek.com)
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