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It was widely expected that Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst would be Ginni Rometty's successor. Instead, the job is going to Arvind Krishna -- and that's probably a good thing.

Restoring IBM even part way back to its glory days will require a radical transformation. Analysts say Krishna is up for the task.

Krishna, 57, was the mastermind behind the Red Hat deal.

Thanks to its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM's fourth-quarter cloud revenue was its highest ever.

At the first All Things Open event since Red Hat became a wholly owned IBM subsidiary, the company debuted an Open Source Community Grant that mixes cash and access to the IBM cloud.

“You have competition and cooperation -- and in this case Red Hat is a platform that goes across all of them.”

Before any enterprise can take advantage of data analytics, they've got to ensure their data has been uploaded, cleaned and formatted to allow for easy transferring into analytical models. It's not glamorous work -- but IBM is aiming to make it...