IBM Adds Storage Software to Help Customers Manage Cloud
February 17, 2015
Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Alex Barinka.
IBM is introducing new storage software as the company tries to boost sales for higher-margin technology products. International Business Machines Corp.’s new portfolio, called IBM Spectrum Storage, lets customers use a single dashboard to manage massive amounts of information across existing storage infrastructure, including data centers and the cloud.
IBM also has pledged to spend about $200 million a year in the next five years on developing new storage offerings, the company said Tuesday in a statement. IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty has been trying to entice customers with new products, such as software-defined storage, to help reverse falling sales. After 11 quarters of declining revenue, she’s still trying to find growth from higher-margin software and services delivered online via the cloud…
Customers who increasingly rent cloud-computing capacity have cut back on purchasing their own large machines to store data. Meanwhile, IBM and competitors like EMC Corp. have sought to sell more storage that uses faster flash memory, as well as add-on software tools. IBM stopped buying and reselling storage systems from NetApp Inc. last year, instead encouraging customers to buy its own products, according to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg in May…
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