Just had a chat with a friend in the acquisitions team. Seems that less than a year after offloading the steaming dumpster fire of Terremark Cloud to IBM that Verizon execs have now been sniffing around IBM with the idea of buying IBMs cloud division.
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Not going to happen. Ever.
Just because corporate uses AWS doesn’t mean they don’t want to sell cloud to business. After all, corporate never used the b---s--- Terremark stuff we had either.
Think about it... They're talking to them about outsourcing VZ's IT support org(s) to them, not about buying out their businesses, c'mon.
exactly, hct, hence my question earlier. VZ is all in on AWS.
BS. VZ is heavy on AWS now, no reason to buy IBM cloud
I thought it was going to be Accenture cos of the meetings they’ve been having with their cloud vp.
Heard the same thing. Sounds like it’s more about the services than the hardware so assume this is going to be about remote management.
Thought IBM was gone a long time ago,.verizon is always buying sh-- companies or old technology,
It makes a lot of sense if they were to pursue that. If you look at the wireline numbers, FiOS and copper are going nowhere. They should’ve held onto those cloud assets.
honest question, what's the purpose of this will all of the empahasis being placed on AWS migrations?