Klimenti Eric

Klimenti Eric

Biography

Klimenti works in IBM of 29 years, he is the veteran of the market of meynfrem, and in the middle of the 2000th held the position equivalent to a role of the director of strategy. In the Rometti command it is one of main "trumps". In March, 2013 it already appointed him the codirector of division of Global IT Services whose turnover makes $40 billion, along with a rising star of Bridget van Kralingen Bridzhet corporation.

At the head of new division

In May, 2013 IBM announced that it is going to earn from the market of cloud services $7 billion in the next 18 months. Gartner estimates the world market of cloud computing at $131 billion if to put data on all segments in total.

As one of the main measures for fixing in this market the head of IBM Ginny Rometti created separate division of Cloud Services and delivered to direct new structure of the old friend, Erich Clementi, the vice president of IBM Global Technology Services.

Industry analysts find it difficult to estimate how soon the new division will be able to bring to corporation the stated $7 billion revenue as before the company did not open digit about the cloud business. But within IBM, as well as at other IT giant, cloud services remain one of the most perspective directions. In April, 2013 IBM stated that its cloud business grew by 70% in comparison with earlier quarter.

IBM takes an active position in the market of cloud services. The other day it was announced acquisition of cloud computing of the Softlayer company having 21 thousand clients whose revenue in 2012 made about $400 million SoftLayer will become a cornerstone of new division of corporation.