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July 20 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp IBM.N posted second-quarter revenue and profit that beat analysts' estimates on Monday, riding on the strength of its high-margin cloud computing business, sending its shares up 6%.

7月20日（路透社）-国际商业机器公司IBM.N在其高利润率云计算业务的强势推动下，周一公布的第二季度收入和利润超过了分析师的预期，其股价上涨了6％。

IBM has jettisoned some of its legacy business to focus on cloud computing, an area that has seen a lot of action in recent years as companies ramp up their digital shift to control costs and boost efficiency.

IBM放弃了一些传统业务，专注于云计算。近年来，随着公司加大数字化转型以控制成本和提高效率，这一领域已采取了许多行动。

Revenue from the cloud business, previously headed by IBM's new boss Arvind Krishna, rose 30%to $6.3 billion.

来自云计算业务的收入增长了30％，达到63亿美元，该收入之前由IBM新任老板Arvind Krishna领导。

Krishna took over as chief executive officer from Ginni Rometty in April, while appointing former Bank of America Corp's BAC.N top technology executive Howard Boville as the new head of IBM's cloud business.

克里希纳（Krishna）于4月从Ginni Rometty接任首席执行官，同时任命了前美国银行（Bank of America Corp.）的BAC.N最高技术主管霍华德·波维尔（Howard Boville）为IBM云业务的新负责人。

"As we got into the latter half of the second quarter, we saw a marked inflection in clients' acceleration to digital transformation and cloud. And you saw that play out in our cloud performance, which was up very nicely," Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh told Reuters.

首席财务官James表示：“进入第二季度的下半年，我们看到了客户加速向数字化转型和云计算的转折。您看到了这一点，在我们的云计算性能中发挥了非常好的作用。”卡瓦诺告诉路透社。

IBM's global business services unit was impacted as clients cut or delayed spending on discretionary projects due to COVID-19, Kavanaugh said. Sales in the unit fell 7% to $3.9 billion.

卡瓦诺说，由于客户削减或推迟了由于COVID-19导致的酌定项目支出，IBM的全球业务服务部门受到了影响。该部门的销售额下降了7％，至39亿美元。

While Western Europe and Asia Pacific showed a pickup in client spending during June, U.S. and Latin America customers pulled back as the pandemic impact got worse, Kavanaugh said.

卡瓦诺说，虽然西欧和亚太地区的客户支出在6月份有所增加，但随着大流行影响的加剧，美国和拉丁美洲的客户有所减少。

IBM's total revenue fell 5.4% to $18.12 billion in the quarter, but came in above analysts' estimates of $17.72 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. Excluding the impact from currency and business divestitures, revenue declined 1.9%.

根据Refinitiv的IBES数据，该季度IBM的总收入下降了5.4％，至181.2亿美元，但高于分析师的预期的177.2亿美元。排除汇率和业务剥离带来的影响，收入下降了1.9％。

The company's net income fell to $1.36 billion, or $1.52 per share, in the quarter ended June 30 from $2.5 billion, or $2.81 per share, a year earlier.

在截至6月30日的季度中，该公司的净收入从去年同期的25亿美元，即每股2.81美元，降至13.6亿美元，即每股1.52美元。

Excluding items, the company earned $2.18 per share, above estimates of $2.07 per share.

不计特殊项目，该公司每股收益为2.18美元，高于每股2.07美元的预期。

(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru: Editing by Maju Samuel)

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