#CLOUDWARS -- Since @IBM began breaking out its trailing-12-month cloud revenue a couple of quarters ago, lots of folks around the tech industry have been shocked out of their boots to learn that 106-year-old IBM has a robust, deep, and fast-growing #cloudcomputing business with almost $16 billion in annual revenue. As the inside-the-tech-bubble purists dig into that whopping number, they're fairly willing to swallow the fact that $8.8 billion of the $15.8 billion total comes from IBM's "as a Service" offerings: #IaaS, #PaaS, #SaaS and also a category fairly unique to IBM called " #BusinessProcessAsAaService." Mitsubishi Heavy IndustriesVoice Examining The Future Of Manufacturing After World Manufacturing Day But, those clipboard-cloud configurators wonder, where in the wide, wide world of sports does IBM's remaining $7 billion in cloud revenue come from? Because surely, they insist, cloud computing was created to be various "as a service" offerings and can surely never be anything but "aaS" subsets, right? What those narrow-minded theorists fail to comprehend, though, is that in our modern world of self-driving cars, 3D-printed houses, intelligent appliances, molecular medicine and even autonomous, "self-driving" databases, it is backward at best and absurd at worst to believe that a generational shift as profound and widespread and fast-growing as cloud computing would ever be confined to some early-stage and highly limited definitions.
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