[tallanvor]

Well, the Microsoft deal includes M365, so that's Windows, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and such. There's probably Azure credits to move some employee-centered services into the cloud and more easily interface with AD/AAD.

On the IBM side, I can imagine they focused on pushing more of the back end systems into IBM's cloud. Possibly some of the monitoring and management systems for AT&T's hardware, and to make it easier to deploy systems for enterprise customers that don't require dedicated hardware.

Edit: this is obviously speculation. But based on the news articles I've read, that's what makes the most sense to me.

[Sylamore]

I'm saying the news articles are focusing on the wrong stuff compared to what we're actually doing internally. The news articles are PR pieces that don't outline the actual strategy in play.

M365 was already in place, that's not new at all every employee already had access to those capabilities.

IBM is basically taking over the internal cloud stuff that's not AIC - e.g. vmware and all of the employees that go with it and all the bare metal system support too.