On IBM's Cloud Ambitions, An Interview With Big Blue's Cloud Tsar

Much has been said and written (including by me) about IBM's cloud ambitions and its ability to deliver upon those ambitions. IBM is in a funny space. On the one hand it counts some of the biggest organizations in the world as its customers, the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" adage is alive and strong in many traditional enterprises. On the other hand, however, IBM has very much been seen as a laggard in the cloud space. I remember attending the Cloud Connect conference around 2010 and hearing IBM opine its cloudy viewpoint - sitting in a room of well-informed cloud commentators, it was seen as a serious case of "cloud washing".