Rothming understands that highly accomplished managers, like evangelists, also need to spread their vision of the future and the vision they have not yet seen to others and to shape themselves and their future together with the businesses in which they belong. In 2017, traveling frequently After China, Luo Siming chose his family to move to Beijing to become a "first person" who has been based in Beijing for 38 years in history as IBM's senior vice president.
Currently, IBM has completed the transformation to become an accelerating cognitive solution and cloud platform company, and constantly choose business according to the trend of technological development and changes in customer needs.
In the past 35 years of IBM career, IBM Global Senior Vice President and IBM Global Systems, responsible for IBM's career, IBM has been responsible for IBMWebsphere (IBM's well-known middleware platform), Systemz (IBM 50 years of glorious history of the mainframe series Marketing, sales, operations, technology development and revenue management for businesses such as PowerSystems (business-critical applications), corporate vice president of strategy and general manager of enterprise programs, responsible for IBM's new computing The strategic direction of the times and its development path.
His resume covers IBM's transition from hardware to software and services over the past three decades; investing in businesses that are in line with IBM's growth and discarding the history of businesses that do not match the future trends and emerging needs of customers - he led IBM to sell Lenovo's x86 Server business; and selling its global semiconductor manufacturing business to GlobalFoundries. "The IBM people are not obsessed with the impact they have on the stops (trends). What we are pursuing is the achievement of some of the new record-breaking capabilities with the latest technology , While developing new markets. 'Luo Siming said.
In reshaping the IBM hardware business, Rossell pushed IBM to partner with Google, Tyan, Mellanox, and NVIDIA and its partners worldwide to create the OpenPOWER consortium, open technology patents to the industry and establish close business in technology sharing Relationship as part of IBM's transformation by 'giving up' those IBM-exclusive, non-commercial technology patents that are customer focused and placing some of these partners' business in the overall vision of IBM's growth.
Based on such a 'win-win' goal, the OpenPOWER consortium covers the entire business of system design and manufacturing, software and application development. The number of members has grown from five at its inception in 2013 to more than 300 now, of which Greater China member companies have 45.
As the soul of IBM's global systems business and a realistic sample of IBM's 'Focus on China' market, Rossella is pleased to introduce his thoughts on IBM's growth and future industries. "With more and more machine learning, cognitive systems and labor With the advent of intelligence, the world of tomorrow will increasingly need a strong and secure infrastructure, "he said.
According to Gartner, by 2020, the total number of interconnected devices will exceed three times the current level to reach 20.8 billion, and the information-based trading, aggregation and management platforms of any enterprise customer can not be separated from the solid infrastructure support. It is also why the hardware represented infrastructure is not only IBM's fame, but also the basis for IBM's transformation and accelerated growth and upgrading.
On January 19, 2018, IBM released its fourth quarter 2017 results. Revenues for the quarter were $ 22.543 billion, up 4% from $ 21.770 billion in the same period of last year. This led to the first increase after 22 quarters of revenue decline In which IBM's strategic business units, including data analytics, cloud services, mobile and security, continued to grow with revenues of $ 11.1 billion, accounting for nearly half of total revenue, up to 49%, considered by the company as an analyst, Cloud, mobile and security, while revenues for systems units (including system hardware and operating system software) were $ 3,332 million, up 32% from $ 2,530 million in the same period last year.
Today, IBM's experience in the enterprise market continues to be of great value. On January 17, 2018, IBM and logistics operator Maersk began a joint venture to promote the use of blockchain in cross-border supply chains. IBM-based district- Blockchain technology applications have been used in many industries, including supply chain, KYC (understanding your customers), trade finance, insurance and more.
Earlier, IBM officially unveiled a new generation of POWER9 server chip architecture in Beijing that is optimized for the current hot AI computing landscape and is expected to deliver true computing power as a common platform for a new generation.
In March 2017, IBM released the first commercial quantum computing system, IBMQ, that helps developers build interfaces between quantum computers and conventional architecture computers. After Watson and the blockchain, quantum computing will go through IBM Cloud platform brings the next batch of powerful services.
In China, new customers are emerging from different industries. In October 2017, IBM and GDD reached a cooperation in the area of blockchain to integrate artificial intelligence into the local manufacturing industry. "I see the Chinese market is in transition, Seeing that new innovations have emerged in the Chinese market, and seeing that China will soon move to the next stage, "Roseng, a governor of Guangdong Province, thinks there are many excellent manufacturing facilities in Guangzhou that work with IBM in artificial intelligence Technology cooperation to create an innovative sample of smart manufacturing and IoT applications Last year, with IBMCogni-tiveVisualInspectionAnalytics (artificial intelligence defect detection technology), the domestic flat panel display industry leader Shenzhen Huaxing Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd. in the production line implementation of artificial intelligence panel Defective identification, which is the first artificial intelligence landing project to determine the defect of the domestic panel industry, said Rosengarten. The artificial intelligence system like IBM Watson has been verified by the actual factory and plays a very important role in assisting intelligent manufacturing and industrial upgrading When I say we want to establish a partnership, I'll try Let it come true. "Luo Si has been convinced with the Chinese partners to establish mutual trust, through continuous technological upgrading and innovation, coupled with the deepening of open cooperation and cooperation strategy, the Chinese market is injecting new vitality into IBM global acceleration I consider myself an 'ambassador' of China from all over the world.
Interview
Economic Observer: Why do you need an ecosystem such as the OpenPOWER Alliance?
Luo Siming: The entire industry realized that the hardware field can also be very open, which needs to make a very big change.Calculation of science before the focus is to make the device smaller and smaller, but now the big data and cognitive era, regardless of There is a need for innovation within the device, whether structural, programming, or major changes in system design, and no single company can do it alone, so we're going to work with companies in many fields to create OpenPOWER Foundation, the important purpose is to establish a complete ecosystem.
In addition to this, localization is innovative. OpenPOWER has a good ecosystem and open technologies that provide high-speed access to the surrounding hardware environment and create rich customized solutions to help members improve their own innovation. At present, at various technical levels There are over 100 cooperative innovations based on OpenPOWER, and the number is still growing rapidly.
Economic Observer: How to measure the success of these cooperation?
LOS ANGELES: We've done a lot of things with our OpenPOWER Foundation members in China, including bringing a lot of Chinese teams to the Texas plant to train them in enterprise-class chip design. Now that Power technology has started to be implemented in China, Server Localization. Next Steps In semiconductor design, we also wanted to localize Power, and members of the OpenPOWER Foundation introduced a variety of OpenPOWER-based development and innovation products to the market including: Zilliz Introduces China's First IBMPOWER-Based High-Performance Server GPU Hardware Accelerated OLAP Database Solution and GPU Database Appliance MEGAWISE; Suzhou Zhongtai Server Co., Ltd. has launched dozens of customized solutions for deep optimization of industrial applications. ZoomONE based on the OpenPOWER platform can provide 4x the equivalent of x86 servers Performance, and has been customer orders.
The Chinese market is undergoing a major transformation and we have many opportunities. Each of our stages has relevant results that allow me to make a basic judgment now that we are making the right decisions.
Economic Observer: How do you think of the system in the IBM global strategic transformation not only stripped of some outdated traditional business, but also create some new business?
Rosalyn: You asked a really good question. Last year we launched the new generation of mainframe IBMZ, which is capable of running over 12 billion encrypted transactions in a day as the most powerful transaction processing system for the cloud. Can also be any application, cloud services, all the data related to the database, anytime, anywhere, ubiquitous data universal encryption.
Also released last year is a new generation of LinuxONEEmperorII is the world's most advanced enterprise Linux platform, with the industry's fastest microprocessors and unique I / O architecture, I / O processing to provide up to 640 cores. It groundbreakingly Support for IBM Secure Service Container (IBMSecureServiceContainer) technology helps organizations handle today's ultra-large, ultra-diverse types of data for business transformation and broader enterprise innovation The newly released POWER9 processor is designed for work on artificial intelligence Load design to reduce training time for deep learning frameworks by a factor of four, helping organizations deploy artificial intelligence applications more quickly and accurately.As another example, as we released the new IBMSpectrum Spectrum Series Storage Software last year Products, flash memory products, enabling enterprises to gain architectural flexibility and competitiveness with a rich product portfolio of 'hardware + software'.
IBM's (system) products, in fact, not two decades ago, but 20 minutes before the product, it is constantly innovating and changing IBM hardware system, in fact, IBM is into the cognitive and cloud era Lay the groundwork for infrastructure.
Economic Observer: How to make the team recognize that they still have a new mission in the business?
Luo Siming: IBM has undergone many transformations and is pursuing new record-breaking capabilities with our latest technology and the best technology while opening up new markets. Transformation involves business models, products, new markets Development and new opportunities to grasp.We hope that employees recognize that, not give up what we have chosen.For colleagues in the system sector, they are now actually non-stop development.In a word, everyone Must embrace and embrace the great vision of the entire IBM so that our employees feel they are essential to their customers.