Comments on: IBM Thinks Its Cloud Role Will Be in Services and Software

By: IBM Plans to Fight Amazon on EC2 Turf

IBM Plans to Fight Amazon on EC2 Turf — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:48:40 +0000

[...] clouds, but what’s notable here is that IBM originally had no plans to get into what it called low-margin services like storage or providing cloud computing as a [...]

By: Cloud Platforms Are Less Profitable, Says Microsoft Exec

Cloud Platforms Are Less Profitable, Says Microsoft Exec — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:52:32 +0000

[...] higher-value services on top of its Azure cloud. The desire for higher margins is why IBM has said it’s less interested in providing the type of infrastructure as a service that Amazon or Rackspace do, but is eager to deliver services that run on top of the computing [...]

By: CSC Cloud Strategy Revolves Around Security for the Enterprise

CSC Cloud Strategy Revolves Around Security for the Enterprise — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:01:55 +0000

[...] when IBM and HP are going to announce their own big cloud computing plays, rather than webinars and research projects. I think this summer, we’re going to see some big players launch real products to take on [...]

By: The GigaOM Interview: Russ Daniels, HP’s Cloud Guru

The GigaOM Interview: Russ Daniels, HP’s Cloud Guru — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:01:04 +0000

[...] plans to launch a cloud later this summer and is working on standards for cloud computing, and IBM is putting out a lot of press releases, but HP has actually explained how it views the cloud, notably how it thinks the concept of [...]

By: Why IBM Should Buy Sun: Cloud Services

Why IBM Should Buy Sun: Cloud Services — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:28:49 +0000

[...] today that it will offer cloud computing and cloud storage. IBM doesn’t have this, but in a chat yesterday, Drew Clark, director of strategy and corporate venture capital at IBM, told me that if IBM needed [...]