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SoftLayer, Google Top Cloud Benchmark
An expanded cloud-benchmarking test again found public cloud competitors outperforming industry leader Amazon Web Services in terms of performance and price, with the bare metal version of IBM's SoftLayer ...Full Article
IBM Expands Bluemix With ‘Local’ Security
The steady enterprise shift to the hybrid cloud infrastructure brings with it greater requirements for managing that infrastructure while moving data and applications securely between on-premise platforms and public ...Full Article
IBM Cloud Gets a Boost with Box Deal
IBM's partnership this week with Box, the enterprise collaboration software vendor, extends the reach of IBM's cloud services such as Bluemix along with its Watson artificial-intelligence technology to another ...Full Article
Network Filers Take To The Clouds
Most disk storage arrays are based on commodity hardware these days. Generally speaking, they use Xeon processors from Intel as their controller brains, they use normal main memory as ...Full Article
VoltDB Database Put Through The Paces On Clouds
One of the buzzwords for users of cloud services refers to the increasing need for speed and the velocity of data. Datasets are not only growing in size but ...Full Article
SoftLayer To Outflank Rivals With Bare Metal, InfiniBand, And Power8
There are many ways for IBM to get to the $7 billion revenue run rate it has promised Wall Street it can hit as it exits 2015. One way ...Full Article
IBM Unveils High-Speed Link To SoftLayer Cloud
IBM is offering a dedicated connection to its SoftLayer cloud platform as a high-speed link between an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure and cloud services. The SoftLayer cloud division of ...Full Article
Microsoft Pressuring AWS In The Clouds
A closely watched assessment of the cloud computing industry again ranks Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider (IaaS), but notes that rival Microsoft is slowly ...Full Article
IBM Cloud Guru Stresses Need For Speed
Technology, rather than budget or efficiency considerations, is driving enterprise decision-making, the head of IBM's cloud operations told the attendees of the opening session of the Red Hat Summit. ...Full Article
IBM Puffs Up Platform Symphony, LSF On SoftLayer Cloud
IBM entered 2014 hitting the cloud drum hard. Taking a page from tech titans like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, Big Blue wants to make it as simple ...Full Article
