IBM spinoff wants to become 4th major cloud provider by piggybacking on the big 3

Cloud provider Kyndryl, an IBM spinoff firm, said it hopes to grow by helping companies use products from its three biggest competitors, its chief executive told Bloomberg recently.

"Look, we run some of our customer's workloads on the IBM Cloud today," CEO Martin Schroeter said in the Aug. 17 story. "It's just that the others have a much bigger market share, so it's a much more important market for us in the future."

Moving services to the cloud has become an increasing focus of health IT executives in recent years. Health systems have typically opted for one of the big three: Amazon, Microsoft or Google.

Kyndryl ranks fifth in the global cloud market, behind Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba, according to a July report from Synergy Research Group.

The firm's sales declined 10 percent to $4.3 billion in the second quarter of 2022, surpassing analysts' expectations, Bloomberg reported. The company hopes to expand sales by 2025.

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