Arvind Krishna has spent 35+ years at IBM, becoming CEO in 2020. He orchestrated the company's pivot to hybrid cloud and AI, including the $34B Red Hat acquisition and spin-off of Kyndryl. He holds a PhD and 15 patents.
no scored calls yet — needs a stated position or a categorical verdict, with a matured window vs SPY
Mainframe demand repricing is a capex reprioritization, not structural decline—Z-17 at 130% capacity growth, 85% of buyers increasing capacity, and mainframe 5-15x cheaper per unit for resilience workloads. Quantum computing is now in engineering realm: 100M computations by 2029, $1T total market by 2030s, accelerated by HRL acquisition.
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