IBM cloud VP talks SoftLayer and OpenStack
September 26, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.
IBM made waves in the cloud computing market when it acquired SoftLayer for $2 billion in early June. Three months into the integration process, SearchCloudComputing spoke with Dennis Quan, IBM’s vice president of SmartCloud Enterprise, to discuss Big Blue’s plans for its new Infrastructure as a Service property.
Quan is responsible for the technology platform underlying all of IBM’s cloud services. His involvement in cloud computing started in 2007, when his team built IBM’s first cloud with Google and the National Science Foundation, and he has held numerous technical leadership positions with IBM over the past 14 years…
Can you give us some detail about how IBM plans to differentiate SoftLayer and SmartCloud in competition with Amazon Web Services?
Dennis Quan: SoftLayer has been strong in what you’d call the ‘born on the Web’ space. They’ve got 100,000 servers worldwide and a very powerful portfolio. They offer the standard virtual machine public cloud model that many companies have out there, but I think one of the things that differentiates them from other cloud providers is their ability to offer what we call Bare Metal as a Service…
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