How Bluetab Aligns With IBM Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Bluetab, based in Madrid, Spain, employs more than 700 data experts. The company, founded in 2005, serves enterprise vertical markets such as banking, telecommunications, energy and utilities across Spain, Mexico, Peru and Colombia.Bluetab will tuck into IBM's data services consulting practice for hybrid cloud and IT services.The deal has some benefits and potential risks. On the upside, Bluetab has multi-cloud expertise along with Red Hat OpenShift expertise. On the potential downside, Bluetab could in some ways compete with the Red Hat's ecosystem of OpenShift and data-centric IT consulting partners.IBM is leveraging Red Hat OpenShift as a multi-cloud software platform to compete against VMware while pivoting away from head-on competition from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.IBM Acquires Bluetab: Executive Perspectives
"The outside-in digital transformation of the past is giving way to the inside-out potential of using company-owned data with AI and automation to generate business value and create intelligent workflows. Our acquisition of Bluetab will fuel migration to the cloud and help our clients to realize even more value from their mission-critical data."
"The key to solving data challenges for our clients has been the exceptionally talented and experienced team we have been able to build as well as the value-added accelerators we have developed. We could not be more excited by the opportunity that IBM offers us to continue to grow our team, to build on our accelerators and to help more clients achieve leadership positions by leveraging their data."
"We have had the good fortune to engage with and develop long-lasting relationships with large organizations that value innovation and share our data-driven vision for the future. Over the years, we have partnered with our clients to help deliver transformation to hybrid and multi-cloud models enabling them to leverage value from their data assets."
IBM Spinning Off Kyndryl: MSP Business Details
Meanwhile, IBM is on track to spin out Kyndryl as an independent managed infrastructure services provider (MSP) business before 2022. IBM and Kyndryl will certainly partner, but the companies may also compete on some fronts, ChannelE2E believes.
