Kyndryl Spinoff

CF: And now you can focus on that more since the spinoff of IBM’s managed infrastructure services business [Kyndryl]?

DLR: As soon as we did that, it was inevitable that our go-to-market strategy was going to be dependent on having a channel and ecosystem at the heart of IBM’s growth going forward. The message to the channel and to our partners is that you are now an essential part of IBM’s growth strategy. Now that Kyndryl has been spun off, it offers us and our partners an opportunity to really tap into the managed services and systems integration portfolio. And we’re looking at that as an opportunity for both us and them on how we reactivate many of our traditional partners, in an area of business that we haven’t typically done before.