Cloud Computing: IBM Shutters Somers, New York, Campus

May 18, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Robert McMillan.

International Business Machines Corp. is closing its Somers, New York, campus, home to approximately 2,000 employees in the company’s systems and software divisions. Workers will be relocated by March 2017 to an IBM facility in nearby North Castle, New York, which is being modernized, said IBM spokesman Edward Barbini, Big Blue plans to sell the 700-acre Somers property, he said.

The Somers campus was built to accommodate 2,700 workers. It was designed by architect I.M. Pei and completed in 1989. IBM is struggling with the contraction of its traditional software and services businesses and trying to reinvent itself as a seller of cloud computing and artificial intelligence services…

It has reported four consecutive years of quarterly revenue declines as it has sold off its Intel-based server and chip-making businesses…

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