ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) announced today that it has received the 2016 Cloud Company of
the Year Award from leading independent technology market research
firm Frost & Sullivan. The Award acknowledges IBM's market
leadership in delivering a complete and fully integrated stack of
cloud services including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Particularly important to CIOs and IT managers, Frost &
Sullivan highlights IBM's ability to support hybrid environments
via the company's extensive portfolio of connectivity tools and
capabilities that allow enterprises to easily create, deploy, and
manage a flexible range of applications and microservices.
"This award recognizes the extraordinary range and depth of
IBM's cloud services portfolio," said Don
Boulia, VP of Cloud Strategy and Portfolio Management at
IBM. "IBM Cloud provides clients with flexibility and choice when
embracing hybrid solutions. They can continue driving value from
their existing investments, while also gaining access to public,
scalable infrastructure and services across our global footprint of
data centers, including IBM Watson."
According to Lynda Stadtmueller,
Vice President of Cloud Services, Stratecast|Frost & Sullivan,
"IBM's cloud platform supports the concept of 'hybrid
integration'—that is, a hybrid IT environment in which disparate
applications and data are linked via a comprehensive integration
platform, allowing the apps to share common management
functionality and control." These capabilities enable customers to
leverage Watson and analytics
functionality made available through application programming
interfaces (APIs) on Bluemix.
Stadtmueller also commented on the economic benefits of IBM
Cloud, noting, "IBM Cloud offers a price-performance advantage over
competitors due to its infrastructure configurations and service
parameters—including a bare metal server option; single-tenant
(private) compute and storage options; granular capacity selections
for processing, memory, and network for public cloud units; and
all-included technical support."
Competitors in the cloud market do not offer such a broad
portfolio of integrated infrastructure, software, and platform
solutions, according to Frost & Sullivan.
To win the Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award a
company must demonstrate excellence in growth, innovation, and
leadership. This kind of excellence typically translates into
superior performance in three key areas: demand generation, brand
development, and competitive positioning. These areas serve as the
foundation of a company's future success and prepare it to deliver
on the two criteria that define the Company of the Year
Award—Visionary Innovation & Performance and Customer
Impact.
About IBM Cloud
For more information about cloud
offerings from IBM, visit www.ibm.com/cloud.
Media contacts
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IBM
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