IBM isn’t one of the big players in the pure cloud market, but the tech company wants to make a name for itself in hybrid cloud by targeting industry-specific solutions.
Apart from mainframe domination, IBM has a history leveraging its business acumen for technological innovations in spaces tangential to compute — from workplace time-keeping systems to typewriters and copy machines.
“Their intention is to truly cloudify their mainframe,” Brent Ellis, senior analyst at Forrester, said in an interview with CIO Dive. “They’re not quite there, but they’re working on it.”
