IBM: We're the reassuringly expensive cloud Ahead of Amazon.com breaking out results for Amazon Web Services last week, IBM wrote to let us know that not only does it haul in about US$7.7 billion a year with cloud and software-as-a-service but that it does so with “higher-value, higher profit cloud opportunities” rather than “low-end commoditized cloud offerings.” We …
"...it does so with “higher-value, higher profit cloud opportunities” rather than “low-end commoditized cloud offerings.”
Can't lie, I didn't read a word past that. However, I feel that really is the way to go for BigCorp because eventually, just like the internet, "the cloud" will enter every home. Eventually that is, because eventually Time Warner will get around to offering me a sanely priced full duplex 1gb connection (I'll be home-cloud ready by 2054!...can't wait!!!).
IBM has always charged 10 times what everyone else does for exactly the same thing. The difference being, it long ago wormed its way into th etop corporations and government so can chum up to them nicely, no matter how nasty their business.
Yes, because something horrible that IBM was involved in 70 years ago is so relevant to whether you should do business with them today; much more so than any of the good things they have done (like being way ahead of the curve on opposing race, gender, and GLBTQ discrimination). <rolls eyes>
And yes, I know I'll get a ton of reflexive down-votes from people for whom IBM can do no right.
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