CEO Arvind Krishna: IBM To Invest $1B In Cloud Ecosystem, ‘Elevating The Role Of Partners’
“The channel is quite capable,” said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. “I would rather put more money into the channel and work with them to go after that [market].” By Steven Burke January 21, 2021, 08:56 PM EST
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Thursday said the company is investing $1 billion in “rapidly expanding” its partner ecosystem as it sharpens its focus on hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI).
“To accelerate consumption of our hybrid cloud platform, we are also rapidly expanding our ecosystem by adding hundreds of new partnerships with global system integrators, independent software vendors and major third-party software partners, and also elevating the role of partners,” said Krishna. “We are investing $1 billon in our ecosystem so that our partners can play a much bigger role in fulfi