Source below, IBM is at #9...
On my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings, Microsoft is #1, Google Cloud is #3, SAP is #5, Oracle is #6, ServiceNow is #7, and IBM is #9. The numbers shown in the headline above and explained in this article have to do with cloud-revenue growth rates for the vendors’ most-recent quarters.
SOURCE:
https://cloudwars.co/google-cloud/fastest-growing-major-cloud-vendors-google-oracle-and-more/
Everything has to run on openshit?! Whoa.. not one customer can choose a single CSP let alone a single platform to run a business.
Get cloud certs and resume ready!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdcFPjGsm8
IBM s—s at just about everything now a days. Piss poor Execs and management.
How long has IBM been trying to be a cloud player I remember there joke products in 2011, 2013 etc, Still they are well behind, thats after spending billions on data centres cloud software softlayer etc
fail, fail ,fail
Im not sure if they can survive this - they will end up like a HP, Fujitsu, etc
You are correct: "They all hate each other and backstab each other daily to stay employed. All empty suits."
This is the life of an Exec at IBM...
IBM claims almost every software sale in their cloud sales the way they brand.
I know most of the cloud execs and managers very well. They all hate each other and backstab each other daily to stay employed. All empty suits.
They need billions upon billions of dollars to fix the existing problems and yet they have yearly declining budget.
The little revenue they get is through enterprise sales, mainly GTS/GBS,, but nothing organic through self service. That’s the reason behind the decline. That’s the reason they eliminated the digital business group.
They are just keeping the lights on until Red Hat magically produces more revenue.
I work in IBM Cloud and it is a mess. Constantly changing priority, every few months a new do or die product that inevitably fails. I do not know why IBM is still trying to be a Cloud player. They should find something they are good at.
Cloud, especially IaaS and PaaS, is the ultimate commoditization "stack it high and sell it cheap" market. As Bezos is fond of saying, "your market is my opportunity".
When has that ever been a market that IBM could succeed in?
The one chart that tells the entire cloud story:
https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106853195-1615557151978-20210312_cloud_capex.png?v=1615557189&w=740&h=400
You can't fake CapEx. If your cloud business is growing you're investing in data centers, servers, and fiber. If it's not, you're not.
That explains, not a secret that they closed the only cloud DC in Melbourne, Australia last year as there was not enough utilisation between Sydney and Melbourne.
I left IBM before Xmas last year so know the entire offering very well. I am aws and azure certified recently. From that perspective the offering is a mess, and from building a solution, and as a potential client, I would stay away. I feel that in 5 or so years, IBM will be renting floor in other vendors cloud centres, as they would not be able to afford, at scale, their own.
In the infamous words of Ricky Bobby "If you ain't first, you're last"
IBM is losing cloud customers. Even the 8% is a cooked number.
they've never really been a player, it's just not their forte