IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud is a set of cloud computing services for business offered by the information technology company IBM.[1] It combines platform as a service (PaaS) with infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The platform scales and supports both small development teams and organizations, and large enterprise businesses. It is globally deployed across data centers around the world.[2] IBM's main competitors in the cloud computing market include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.[3]

IBM Cloud
Typecloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, cloud services
Websitewww.ibm.com/cloud

Timeline
  • June 2013 - IBM acquired SoftLayer, a public cloud platform, to serve as the foundation for its IaaS offering.[4][5]
  • July 2014 - IBM introduced the Bluemix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).[6]
  • October 2016 - IBM rolled the SoftLayer brand under its Bluemix brand of PaaS offerings.
  • October 2017 - IBM unified its entire cloud portfolio as IBM Cloud.[7]

Services

IBM lists over 190 Cloud services,[8] of which some are covered below:

Compute:

  • Bare Metal Server
  • Public Cloud Server
  • VMware Solutions

Containers:

  • Kubernetes Server
  • Red Hat OpenShift

AI:

  • Watson Assistant
  • Watson Discovery
  • Watson Language Translator
  • Watson Studio
  • Machine Learning
  • Speech to Text
  • Text to Speech
  • Visual Recognition

Storage:

Databases:

  • Cloudant
  • Compose for MySQL
  • DB2
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gollark: Probably this will improve when/if they make a GPT-4 with even more parameters and ideally some way to get around the context length limit.
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See also

References
  1. https://www.ibm.com/cloud
  2. https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-whatis-platform
  3. https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/IBM-Bluemix
  4. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/06/04/ibm-buys-privately-held-softlayer-for-2-billion/#61f96d3033a6
  5. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html
  6. https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/IBM-Bluemix
  7. https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2017/nov/02/ibm-eases-out-bluemix-name-rebrands-all-ibm-cloud/
  8. https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog
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