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Barb Darrow Mar 4, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- It was only a matter of time

IBM taps OpenPOWER for SoftLayer bare-metal service

IBM is a big backer of the OpenPOWER open-source hardware project. And it’s the company behind the SoftLayer cloud, so it was only…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Feb 9, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- $500K in free cloud stuff!

Microsoft woos Y Combinator startups with big Azure credits

Microsoft wants to boost its cloud’s profile among startups so it’s making $500,000 in Azure credits available to Y Combinator-backed companies. The credits…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Feb 8, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The week in cloud

Oh IBM, what are we going to do with you?

The week in cloud The past few weeks were not great for IBM but they did not bring the bloodbath — 110,000 job cuts…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 20, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- More nebulous numbers

IBM hits the $7B mark in cloud, but what does that mean?

IBM has pledged to deliver a $7 billion cloud business by 2015 for a couple of years — and now, according to…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Tim Crawford Jan 12, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

Are you ready to take on tomorrow’s IT? Think again.

Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front. The business of IT is very complex and getting increasingly more…

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Buyer's Lens
Barb Darrow Dec 17, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Assist from Equinix

IBM beefs up cloud worldwide with more data centers

Remember that data center land grab we keep talking about?  It’s not letting up. This week it’s IBM’s turn (again) to claim…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Nov 23, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

IBM is moving fast in cloud but is it fast enough to matter?

IBM's putting on a charm offensive to win startups over to its cloud portfolio and SoftLayer's bare metal options continue to appeal. But it still has a long, hard slog to make headway against Amazon Web Services.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 31, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

IBM to build Chinese cloud presence with help from Tencent

U.S. cloud companies see China as a huge opportunity. Now Big Blue is partnering with Tencent Cloud to bring cloud and SaaS business applications to that market.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Oct 1, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cloud restarts done, here come the postmortems from Amazon and Rackspace

Both companies said they've had to be cagey about the Xen vulnerability until now, but offered a bit more information about the patching process and -- in Rackspace's case -- an apology as well.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
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Barb Darrow Oct 1, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

And now it’s IBM’s turn to reboot its cloud

IBM SoftLayer is addressing the same Xen hypervisor vulnerability that sparked reboots by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace -- but it's doing so days later.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Sep 2, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Word to IBM: Let’s lose the long-term earnings guidance and move on

UBS Analyst Steven Milunovich urges IBM to scale back on long-term EPS forecasts and focus on more important, strategic things.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Aug 26, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

IBM SoftLayer will now rent you bare metal servers by the hour

For some resource-intensive jobs, there's no subsitute for bare metal. Now IBM SoftLayer will let you pay for that by the hour.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
David Meyer Jul 22, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

OpenNebula gets Azure and Softlayer integration with new plug-ins

OpenNebula's new "Lemon Slice" beta makes it possible to chuck VMs from OpenNebula infrastructure into more public clouds as needed.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Jun 12, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

With billions of devices coming online, cloud providers better get with IPv6 program

AWS, Google, Microsoft et al. have a huge appetite for unique IP addresses, but except for Amazon's ELB, they don't support IPv6. Expect that to change in the near future.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jun 11, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

IBM beefs up its federal cloud effort with new data centers

Two new IBM SoftLayer cloud data centers, one in Dallas, one in Ashburn, Virg., will be added to IBM's roster later this year.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Jun 7, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why we need to stop freaking out about the NSA and get on with business

Common sense: IBM's cloud chief Lance Crosby thinks companies should focus on securing their data from everyone, not just nosy intelligence agencies.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow May 30, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Which legacy IT company CEO has the worst job in tech? Meg Whitman or Ginni Rometty?

HP CEO Meg Whitman and her counterpart at IBM Ginni Rometty both took over huge companies at the crossroads but under drastically different circumstances. So who has it worse?…

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Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 10, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

IBM CEO: We messed up last year but will do better

Ginni Rometty lays out her case for IBM as a standard-bearer for the next generation of computing, but she also acknowledges that 2013 wasn't a banner year.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Mytton, Server Density Mar 2, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

5 things you probably don’t know about Google Cloud

Not all cloud infrastructure is the same, as David Mytton discovered when he started looking into Google Cloud. The service differs markedly from AWS and SoftLayer in these five key ways.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 27, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Server Density adds multi-cloud dashboard to its monitoring mix

If your devops team is sick and tired of clicking from cloud status page to cloud status page, they might want to check out Server Density's Ops Dashboard.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 16, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

New Rackspace prez has his eye on the prize

Taylor Rhodes, who was named Rackspace president this week, knows the cloud fight is on, but says we're still in early days.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Dec 4, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Can OpenStack scale? IBM and Mirantis say yes it can (and aim to prove it)

Big customers may want to use OpenStack but need hard metrics on how it performs in very large implementations. Mirantis and iBM are using Rally to fill that need.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 28, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

My oh my: what cloud to buy?

RBC Capital Markets wants to help. Its new research compares the positioning and price/performance of many cloud options. Some of the findings confirm what we know, others are a tad surprising.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Derrick Harris Oct 9, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

IBM gets patent to battle cloud ‘noisy neighbor’ problem with SDN

IBM has been awarded a patent for moving virtual machines across physical servers in a cloud in order to ensure applications are receiving the bandwidth they need. It's an interesting solution to a problem that has plagued some cloud users.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure

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