Comments on: IBM’s Cloud Effort Shifts from Workloads to Industries

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:18:06 +0000

i always find metaphors to help with cloud stories but yes, this would enable telcos to deliver a far more robust set of services on behalf of partners than Force.com does.

By: ranjitn

ranjitn — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:20:36 +0000

This offer seems to be aimed at Communication service providers or telcos who have large investments in mobile networks. The software portion certainly will help the management of virtualized environments and the result could be Infrastructure as a Service. To equate this to a Force.com Platform as a Service, would be a stretch.

By: Jeremy Hodge

Jeremy Hodge — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:11:19 +0000

Sorry, posted the wrong video link earlier, here’s the correct one…

http://bit.ly/bZCMR5

By: Jeremy Hodge

Jeremy Hodge — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:03:05 +0000

Check out this video on the new Cloud Service Provider Platform
http://bit.ly/aXRybG

You can follow the announcement on Twitter #ibmcsp2

Reach me @jhodge88 on Twitter

By: David Lorti

David Lorti — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:32:40 +0000

Interesting. This makes sense. Despite all of the hype and actual usage of cloud (which is significant), there is still the possibility that no one is really making much in the way of money from public cloud offerings (Amazon being the possible exception). Cloud's economies of scale may have gone much further in terms of pricing models than most realize - commoditized too far so that though it is a strategically important solution to have, financially, it doesn't make sense, especially for a broad market approach.

By: Basant | Techno-Pulse

Basant | Techno-Pulse — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:12:06 +0000

Decoupling its hardware from the software will help customers as it'll address one of the more dreaded issues of cloud computing i.e. 'vendor-lock-in'. Also focussing on a specific vertical is a good strategy by Big Blue...