Poll Results: 57% Say IBM Will Continue Leading Cloud Market in 2015
IBM’s future success in cloud is debatable — some see potential while others await failure. Either way, Big Blue will attempt to continue to make its cloud presence known to its customers and channel partners. Will it do enough in 2015 to keep its lead on the Talkin’ Cloud 100?
According to our latest unscientific poll, 57 percent of Talkin’ Cloud’s readers believe IBM will continue to hold its number one spot — another 43 percent disagree. The TC 100 ranks the world’s top cloud service providers, aggregators, brokers and more according to cloud revenues and other metrics. Companies on our annual list are ranked based on an internal formula that places heavy weighting on recurring cloud revenues.
According to last year’s research (2014), Big Blue’s the cloud services provider (CSP) to beat. Reported in January 2014, IBM — whose cloud portfolio includes SaaS business applications, IaaS infrastructure services, a PaaS developer platform, private and hybrid cloud, and cloud consulting — collected $4.40 billion in cloud revenues in 2013, up from $2.60 billion in 2012.
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IBM has never appeared on the TC 100 list in the four years Talkin’ Cloud has ranked cloud service providers. Probably because 2014 was the first year Talkin’ Cloud was able to use cloud revenue numbers from IBM.
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“We are moving to the cloud, and we will take our clients to the cloud,” said Jim Comfort, general manager of Cloud Services at IBM Global Technology Services, in an interview. “We are doing this in a way that is a completely different experience.”
He added: “We’re a 100-year-old company because we know how to transform.”
IBM is set to make a Q4 2014 earnings announcement on January 20.
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