Facebook is planning to move WhatsApp off IBM’s public cloud

July 5, 2017 Off By David

Grazed from CNBC. Author: Editorial Staff.

Facebook is planning to move WhatsApp off IBM’s public cloud, source says Facebook is planning to move WhatsApp off IBM’s public cloud, source says. Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service, which is used by 1.2 billion people across the globe, is planning to move off of IBM’s cloud and into Facebook’s own data centers, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The WhatsApp move, which could begin later this year, would result in IBM losing a high profile customer for its public cloud. A source claims that WhatsApp has been one of IBM’s top five public cloud customers in terms of revenue, and was at one point spending $2 million a month with IBM. (IBM says WhatsApp is not currently one of its top five public cloud customers.)…

IBM’s public cloud business lags behind Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is on top with 33 percent of the market in April, as well as Microsoft’s Azure cloud, according to Synergy Research. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014 and has left the app running on the servers it has always used. Other companies that Facebook has acquired over the years initially used similar IBM SoftLayer servers, and Facebook was quick to bring them in-house, another source said. But with WhatsApp, Facebook has taken a much longer time…

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