Arvind Krishna (アルビンド・クリシュナ) entered his fifth year as CEO of IBM, and the company completed its acquisition of HashiCorp in February 2025. The article presents the full picture of IBM's strategy for the multicloud era.
Arvind Krishna (アルビンド・クリシュナ), CEO of IBM, has entered his fifth year in the role and has continued to pursue an active acquisition strategy since taking office. IBM completed its acquisition of HashiCorp in February 2025, assembling a core piece needed to automate systems operations management. Through these moves, IBM aims to integrate multicloud environments and improve operational efficiency.
The article highlights IBM's focus on developing middle-layer software and services as part of its strategy for an era defined by the growing adoption of multicloud environments and generative AI. IBM is strengthening a range of solutions that support coordination, integration and operations across multiple clouds and on-premises environments.
Yamaguchi (山口), president of IBM Japan, stresses the importance of redesigning the whole environment, including existing business systems, from an overarching perspective. Comparing mainframes to bullet trains, Yamaguchi emphasizes the need to “redesign the whole system.” The aim is to reaffirm their position as a core IBM technology.
The article explains that its central theme is the strengthening of middle-layer solutions that support the practical implementation of hybrid cloud, including the adoption of generative AI. The focus is on how the automation capabilities and expanded middle-layer toolset resulting from the HashiCorp acquisition will support enterprise cloud integration.