In a long overdue announcement, IBM, this weekend officially embraced the cloud with the announcement of some initial products and services and a roadmap for its stable of corporate and government customers to comfortably embrace cloud computing. Steve Lohr of the New York Times draws parallels to IBM’s role is the advancement of Linux servers and personal computers.
While it is good to see IBM joining the ranks of companies embracing the cloud, I see it much more as a “me too” strategy than a leadership position I would have expected from Big Blue. Cloud computing as a technology has already been accepted by larger numbers of organizations world wide, because some degree of virtualization makes sense for almost every business and organization.
I do agree with Lohr, that IBM’s entrance will reinforce many of the things we, and other firms like BlueLock have been saying for several years, but I think they should have said it sooner.
While it is good to see IBM joining the ranks of companies embracing the cloud, I see it much more as a “me too” strategy than a leadership position I would have expected from Big Blue. Cloud computing as a technology has already been accepted by larger numbers of organizations world wide, because some degree of virtualization makes sense for almost every business and organization.
I do agree with Lohr, that IBM’s entrance will reinforce many of the things we, and other firms like BlueLock have been saying for several years, but I think they should have said it sooner.
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