{"id":23013,"date":"2012-09-26T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=23013"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:21:00","slug":"ibm-targets-medium-size-business-for-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/23013\/ibm-targets-medium-size-business-for-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM targets medium-size business for cloud services"},"content":{"rendered":"

International Business Machines Corp<\/a> will announce on Wednesday that it will ramp up efforts to sell cloud computing services to midsize businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The move by IBM, a bellwether for the IT industry because of its global span and breadth of businesses, is aimed at grabbing market share from companies like Amazon.com Inc<\/a> and Salesforce.com Inc<\/a>, which have been successful in the mid-market, the paper said.<\/p>\n

For Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, midsize companies refer to those with less than 1,000 employees, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n

The company’s general manager in charge of small and medium-sized businesses, Andy Monshaw<\/a>, told the Journal that the cheaper cost of cloud computing will let the company reach a bigger base of smaller customers.<\/p>\n

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing and storage capacity that allows users to, for instance, rent servers and software to store data over a network.<\/p>\n

IBM officials could not be reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.<\/p>\n

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