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What is the new frontier after cloud computing?

For cloud providers who want to stay ahead, what creative thinking can be extracted from ELAINE’s analysis of a narrative on IBM and Red Hat?

When IBM acquired Red Hat, it was like giving water to a fish. Recent change at IBM seems to put the process in reverse. ELAINE finds the following key focuses from the narrative:

"At IBM, under Whitehurst's guidance, in the fiscal year 2020, IBM's total cloud revenue of $25.1 billion went up by 20%. In the Cloud arena, Whitehurst's absence will leave a weakened IBM and Red Hat facing stronger cloud and Linux rivals."

"former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has said at the time that the newly promoted CEO Arvind Krishna was "the right CEO for the next era at IBM because "He is a brilliant technologist who has played a significant role in developing our key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain." But, few people took that seriously. Krishna was seen as an interim CEO. Whitehurst, once he'd gotten a handle on IBM, would take over."

In a larger narrative, it may be indicative that IBM is planning to take Quantum Computing more seriously.
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