IBM’s cloud-services business just came off a big week. In the matter of a couple of days,  the company announced a $325 million deal with Juniper Networks around its cloud efforts and a $550 million partnership with telecommunications giant Vodafone around cloud management and optimization.

At the same time, IBM also saw Red Hat investors approve its $34 billion bid to buy the open-source giant, the latest step in a deal that also has implications for IBM’s cloud ambitions. All of this comes as IBM competes in a fast-growing cloud market that includes such heavyweights as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which made their own news around moves they made in the retail industry.