IBM closed its $34 Billion purchase of Red Hat,
sealing the world’s second-largest technology deal ever and setting up the iconic
U.S. company on a path to try to compete with top software purveyors in the cloud.
The 108-year-old International Business
Machines Corp., once synonymous with mainframe computing, has been struggling
to adopt cloud-related technologies. It’s playing catch-up to market leaders
Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in offering computing and other software
and services over the internet.
Having already fallen behind in the public
cloud, IBM is betting big on the so-called hybrid cloud, which allows companies
to simultaneously run programs on both their own internal servers and the big
public cloud providers, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure.
Through Red Hat, IBM will offer clients the chance
to merge their private and public clouds -- regardless of which provider they
use. Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies will be matched with IBM’s
industry expertise and sales teams in more than 175 countries. The platform
will allow companies to run and manage their data and applications both on-site
and on private and multiple public clouds.
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