IBM’s new chief executive officer Virginia Rometty has a huge task ahead of her overhauling the company’s IT outsourcing model as it shifts towards a pay-as-you-go cloud computing model. Speaking at the Best of Breed conference in California at the start of this week, vice president of outsourcing and offshore services for IDC David Tapper claimed that IBM has a mammoth task on its hands.
“IBM is dealing with a huge set of challenges,” he was reported by CRN as saying. Mr Tapper added that system integration is quickly becoming a core aspect of service delivery – particularly as software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes much more widespread.
Mr Tapper concluded: “My belief is IBM has to build a distinct business unit like a cloud unit that pulls it all together and moves the old business model to the new business model.”
Recently, IBM’s vice president of cloud services Ric Telford claimed that platform-as-a-service and its associated technologies were no longer about cost savings alone. He told V3 that migration to the cloud offers an entirely new paradigm for the development and deployment of applications.
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