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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Fresh off a partnership agreement with Verizon to push edge computing, 5G and more, Big Blue also has signed a deal with global professional services firm EY. A major goal is to help customers speed up digital transformation and also utilize Red Hat OpenShift in hybrid cloud computing.

NotedArvind Krishna, IBMs Chief Executive Officer:

Expanding this global alliance bolsters our ability to bring our hybrid cloud and AI capabilities to clients. The EY organization is a leader in driving large and complex client transformations. Combining EY teams breadth of industry and regulatory knowledge, technology capabilities and longstanding strategy and business consulting leadership, with IBMs powerful technology and Red Hat OpenShifts open hybrid cloud portfolio, will play a key role in accelerating our clients journeys to the cloud.

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Financial terms were not disclosed.

The deal was announced Friday.

Carmine Di Sibio, EY Global Chairman and CEO, said the partnership is built on providing differentiating and transformational business value for clients. As organizations learn how to adapt to todays new normal, leveraging the cloud, AI, analytics and other technologies have become increasingly important. IBM is a proven leader in hybrid cloud and AI, and together were developing innovative solutions to help provide the sustainability and resiliency that assist clients to operate and lead today, and in the years to come, as they reframe their future amidst an unpredictable and rapidly evolving environment.

According to the announcement:

IBM owns Raleigh-based Red Hat and employs several thousand people across North Carolina.

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