IBM
TOP 10 – CLOUD NATIVE NETWORKS
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IBM
IBM
REVENUE: US $ 62.8BN EMPLOYEES: 270,300 CEO: ARVIND KRISHNA FOUNDED: 1911
is a pivotal enabler of Cloud-Native Networks, uniquely positioned through its acquisition of Red Hat. The US $ 34 billion investment secured control of the most strategic telco software layer, the horizontal cloud platform. Red Hat OpenShift, IBM’ s enterprise Kubernetes platform, has become the de facto standard for telco clouds, adopted by major operators like T-Mobile US.
Enabling a“ develop once, deploy anywhere” model, IBM serves as the neutral foundation for multi-vendor, cloud-native networks spanning core, edge, and RAN environments. Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM
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