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]
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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:
- Data Storage
- Cloud Object Storage - Object storage to store unstructured data
Databases:
- Cloudant
- Compose for MySQL
- DB2
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See also
- Amazon Web Services
- Bluemix
- Google Cloud Platform
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Microsoft Azure
- OpenStack
- Platform as a Service
References
- https://www.ibm.com/cloud
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-whatis-platform
- https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/IBM-Bluemix
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/06/04/ibm-buys-privately-held-softlayer-for-2-billion/#61f96d3033a6
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html
- https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/IBM-Bluemix
- https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2017/nov/02/ibm-eases-out-bluemix-name-rebrands-all-ibm-cloud/
- https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog
External links
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