CIOs who depend on IBM to manage their IT infrastructure have been in legacy limbo since Big Blue first announced it would shed its managed infrastructure activities as a separate company in order to zero in on hot markets for technologies such as artificial intelligence and the cloud.
In the four months since IBM announced the spinoff, hints as to how the new entity will operate are coming into focus, with IBM seeing a big opportunity to offer new services in fields such as cloud reversibility or data management at the network edge.
Latest in a series of spinoffs
IBM customers are no strangers to Big Blue’s long-lived appetite for strategic divestiture. The company that became IBM was formed from the 1911 amalgamation of three activities, but in 1934 it sold one of those, weighing machines, and in 1958 another, time-recording, to concentrate on the third, computing.
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