IBM acquires Verizon enterprise cloud and hosting services
The deal announced this week further stripped the company of its cloud hosting business.
The sale of its data center and cloud hosting service assets shows that the company has abandoned its ambition in public and private clouds, that is, it will still focus on enterprise connections, which is why the company acquired Communication Drive in February.
In its latest financial report, the company said that its total revenue from business solutions for operators was billion US dollars, down from billion US dollars last year.
The sale of enterprise cloud and hosting services to will further promote the development of cloud computing. This year's main strategy is cloud computing. At present, the company's leading position in the field of private cloud services, its revenue in cloud computing is billion dollars, and its rose with Microsoft, Google, and the public cloud field.
Hope and media services
Now, the enterprise cloud continues to shrink, which will further abandon the public and private cloud markets related to enterprise sales. According to the company's high price acquisition of AOL (billion US dollars) and Yahoo (billion US dollars) from the user market, it will focus on the video field for a period of time in the future.
The company also set up digital media services for business, reorganized the studio of new media experience launched last month, bundled media services with new business departments, and focused on selling software and services by other network operators.
In terms of standards, the two main lines lead to the emergence of contribution standards and promotion standards; Some other operators hope to establish their own standards and promote the implementation of standards.
We are working with, Ericsson and other companies, together with relevant tests. In the last week, the acquisition of more communications in Straight Path involved a value of US $billion, higher than the US telecom giant's earlier proposal of US $billion. Because of its owner's technology, the wireless spectrum licensing company was rumored to hold a bidding war.
The commercial services planned to launch commercial services are at least announced by mainstream operators. The company also announced that it will be the next gold mine in the early days of the forum standards
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