IBM SUPPLY CHAIN
Cloud services are the future
“ The cloud is not creating a challenge , it makes life easier from a logistics viewpoint ... Having full tolerance cloud computing technology on our side is a definite benefit ”
– Jaap Hazewinkel
reach and understands the spare parts needs of customers in each of those countries , then IBM has a lot of expertise in that area .”
Technological future The environment which companies such as IBM operate in will change dramatically because of the technological advancements that are currently afoot . Currently IBM knows all customers ’ locations it may have to support 24 / 7 are spread over a country ; this will change with the evolvement of cloud technology that will result in a concentration of hardware in a couple of big data centres .
“ Customers won ’ t have their own infrastructure anymore and that may significantly affect how we are organised in five years ’ time .” Hazewinkel said .
“ For example , a mainframe may have a parts issue and to get it back to being fully fault
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