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Structure 09: IBM’s Wally Chiu Discusses Its Move to Cloud Computing

GigaOm  Jun 25 09

IBM announced it would begin offering cloud computing infrastructure to large companies just two weeks ago. Willy Chiu, VP of IBM’s Cloud Labs, talked briefly about IBM’s move to cloud computing. Chiu, who started working with IBM’s cloud computing team three years ago, said IBM has made a major investment in its [...]Tweet This Full story...

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