It’s not every day that a 110-year-old company says it wants to make doing business easier. But that’s the new mantra shared by Big Blue’s leadership and explained by newly minted channel chief Kate Woolley, formerly the IBM CEO’s chief of staff.
A global recession may be on the horizon for 2023. The tell-tale signs are rising inflation, interest rate hikes, and a significant drop in home prices. While the U.S. unemployment rate is moderately stable at 3.7%, there have been plenty of layoffs in the technology sector, which may forecast more aggressive cuts in the year ahead.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic threw the entire electronics and hardware supply chain into disarray, cloud adoption has skyrocketed. Instead of waiting months for hardware and parts, many organizations have migrated to the cloud, which has opened up a new era of push-button cloud adoption.