IBM, the venerable tech company, has been on an acquisition binge in the last few years, buying Red Hat and HashiCorp, and it recently announced plans to buy Confluent.
There’s a method to this shopping spree, according to Sanil Nambiar, client engagement lead, AI for networks, at IBM: Assembling the infrastructure organizations will need for AI.
“The strategy, obviously, is hybrid cloud, data and AI and automation working together as an architecture,” Nambiar told me in this…

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