SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 ― US computer giant IBM soothed market jitters yesterday with better-than-expected results and a slight uptick in turnover after four quarters down. Its stock rose 3.14 per cent during electronic trading after the close of the New York Stock Exchange. IBM raked in US$17.7...
IBM raked in US$17.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, up 0.9 per cent from last year at the same time. — ReutersSAN FRANCISCO, April 20 ― US computer giant IBM soothed market jitters yesterday with better-than-expected results and a slight uptick in turnover after four quarters down.
Its stock rose 3.14 per cent during electronic trading after the close of the New York Stock Exchange. IBM raked in US$17.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, up 0.9 per cent from last year at the same time.Cloud computing, which has become the lifeblood of the company, posted revenue of US$5.4 billion, slightly up.
This sector is notably driven by a hybrid cloud platform that allows customers to use a combination of their own private servers and so-called public storage space, such as that provided by external service providers like Amazon or Microsoft. In early February, IBM announced the acquisition of Taos, a company specializing in data migration and cloud platform management services. To focus on this sector, the group began last year hiving off its IT infrastructure management activities, to make it an independent listed company.
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