<p>IBM believes its cloud portfolio is one of its best kept secrets. The company contends that it is infact ranked within the top ten cloud providers on the planet; a position it owns by virtue of the 60-something different cloud-based solutions that now exist within its SaaS portfolio.</p><p>Further acknowledgment has come in the form of the Forrester Wave report: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012. In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of the cloud strategies of online collaboration software vendors, it identified eight significant collaboration services providers Box, Cisco Systems, Citrix Online, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and Yammer.</p><p>So IBM does cloud, but in particular, IBM does social and collaborative cloud as its most high profile 'show dog' in this space.</p><p>Speaking to Cloud Pro at the Connect 2013 Lotusphere social business software conference this January was Rebecca Buisan, the company's director of product marketing for the IBM Social Business Cloud division.</p><p><a href="http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/adrian-bridgwater/5241/ibm-and-cloud-evergreen-economic-model">Keep reading...</a></p>