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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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…
Read MoreOh 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…
Read MoreIBM 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…
Read MoreAre 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…
Read MoreIBM 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…
Read MoreIBM 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.…
Read MoreIBM 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.…
Read MoreCloud 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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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.…
Read MoreWord 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.…
Read MoreIBM 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.…
Read MoreOpenNebula 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.…
Read MoreWith 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.…
Read MoreIBM 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.…
Read MoreWhy 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.…
Read MoreWhich 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?…
Read MoreIBM 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.…
Read More5 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.…
Read MoreServer 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.…
Read MoreNew 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.…
Read MoreCan 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.…
Read MoreMy 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.…
Read MoreIBM 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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