Deploy an IBM BLU Service on SoftLayer Cloud in One Click

January 5, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Cloudify. Author: Tamir Korem.

Nowadays, if you’re a huge technology company and you’re not venturing into the cloud, you’re living in the past. So it’s not surprising that many companies are investing heavily in cloud across the board. This is also true for IBM, that decided in 2013 to acquire SoftLayer for approximately $2B, like many others such as HP who invested just as largely in their Helion play, and this is only one example of many.

SoftLayer, which was at that time, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider, served thousands of customers. Today SoftLayer (under the auspices of IBM) maintains a global cloud infrastructure platform spanning 16 data centers (and counting…) all over the world, and only intends to expand this reach to serve their strategic plans and penetration into the cloud market…

Cloud Application Orchestration

However, venturing into the cloud is just the first step into actually being able to provide a full and sustainable ecosystem of cloud users. In order to have an ability to build dynamic and scalable cloud environments with complex application stacks on them, you ought to have diverse cloud tools, and among these orchestration tools…

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