IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer in June 2013 is of strategic significance to the development of IBM's cloud computing. At IBM 2014 China Forum, IBM's cloud computing strategy transformation is also centered on SoftLayer, which shows SoftLayer's cloud computing strategy at IBM. It plays an important role.
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At the same time, IBM announced that SoftLayer is integrating IBM Power Systems into its cloud infrastructure, which is expected to provide a broader range of services beyond the traditional cloud environment. IBM also released new services and tools to help enterprises deploy hybrid cloud and private cloud environments. SoftLayer will take full advantage of the IBM Power Systems family of servers built to meet the needs of big data and help customers find advanced technologies and tools to better access, understand, and use the ever-increasing data.
IBM is committed to investing 1.2 billion U.S. dollars to expand its global cloud business. In particular, IBM plans to provide cloud services from 40 data centers in 15 countries on five continents, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. From the next quarter, SoftLayer's first service based on Power Systems will be the IBM Watson solution, and more products will later use Power Systems to optimize the advantages of data and analysis.
After IBM announced the formal acquisition of DBaaS Cloudant, a database-as-a-service provider, the Cloudant DBaaS platform utilizes the SoftLayer cloud computing platform to create a global data transmission network, enabling applications to be significantly expanded and readily available. The collocation between Cloudant and SoftLayer is obviously intended by IBM. With SoftLayer's cloud platform, Cloudant's DBaaS service will receive strong business support.
Ms. Luo Ruiyi, general manager of Global Information Technology Services Department of Greater China Greater China, said in an exclusive interview with YORK that Softlayer, compared with other cloud computing providers, provided not a consumer cloud service but an enterprise-class cloud service that can guarantee enterprise-level applications. Security, reliability and transparency. Mr. George Karidis, COO of Softlayer, also stated that Softlayer Bare Metal Services allows customers to manage their infrastructure in a more direct and tight manner. This is true in performance and security areas, and dedicated bare-metals prevent multiple users facing multiple tenants from sharing a single server. Competition for resources, so that Softlayer can better serve enterprise customers, provide them with a dedicated infrastructure to help them use for computing and storage, applications include big data, high-performance computing HPC, GPU analysis, etc. Wait. This is unmatched by other public cloud service providers on the market.
Public cloud has a higher threshold than private cloud, because the public cloud has to deal with the uncertainty of the service object. For the entry of IBM's hardware infrastructure, from the beginning of its establishment, SoftLayer designed its own hardware platform, so whether Intel, AMD, or Power is no problem for SoftLayer. For SoftLayer, Power is nothing more than a computing node, and the underlying hardware changes have no effect on its own services.
Since the underlying hardware does not affect SoftLayer, the relationship between the upper SCE+ and SoftLayer has become another focus of attention. SCE+ is a cloud service provided by IBM for high-end users, and there will be conflicts between SoftLayer and SoftLayer. Relevant person in charge of SoftLayer stated that the difference between SoftLayer and SCE+ is still very obvious. The users targeted by SCE+ are some enterprises with weak IT capabilities but need a strong technical support team. Future SCE+ may be renamed, prefixed by SoftLayer.
Amazon’s cloud services are more of a consumer business. There is a huge gap between consumer and enterprise levels, and the enterprise-level environment is more complex than consumer products. So for SoftLayer, it’s more of a business-class customer. Can help customers to meet the standards of government regulations.
After selling IBM's x86 server product line to Lenovo, IBM has focused on high-end consulting services such as cloud computing and big data. In 2014, IBM's move to integrate its own software business around the SoftLayer platform is accelerating. With IBM's rich software product business, coupled with the SoftLayer platform, IBM's layout in the cloud computing and big data markets has spread. 