New Delhi, March 25 -- In the latest round of corporate restructuring, IBM is laying off approximately 9,000 employees across multiple locations in the US. The employees who are likely to exit comprise a quarter of staff working on the corporation's Cloud Classic operation, according to a report by The Register.

Teams that are at risk of the axe are believed to consist of those responsible for consulting, corporate social responsibility initiatives, sales, cloud infrastructure offerings, and people who report to IBM's CIO and work on internal systems. It is also being claimed that 10 per cent of the Cloud group (which is not the same as Cloud Classic) has been asked to exit.

The report said one of the reasons behind layoffs in the IBM C...