Tech giant IBM has announced the acquisition of cloud infrastructure provider SoftLayer, evidently hoping to strengthen IBM’s position in the cloud infrastructure as a service space.<\/p>\n
It’s not hard to imagine the reasons around this. Dallas-based SoftLayer calls its platform “cloud without compromise”, and describes itself as the largest privately held cloud infrastructure provider in the world.<\/p>\n
IBM’s cloud portfolio certainly hits home enterprise-side, particularly with its public backing of OpenStack, and SoftLayer’s technology will give the enterprises a wider range of cloudy options.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it’s the perfect sort of company for IBM to swallow up, and adds another player into the bubbling IaaS mix.<\/p>\n
The past couple of months have seen acquisitions, launches and rollouts galore from major players looking to get ahead in the race – or, perhaps more pertinently, get closer to Amazon, as CloudTech examined yesterday.<\/p>\n
From Google’s Compute Engine release …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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