IBM Expands Scope of SoftLayer Cloud Platform
October 10, 2013
Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.
Three months after IBM acquired SoftLayer for $2 billion, the company is aggressively transitioning all of its cloud computing services to the SoftLayer platform. IBM announced that it is moving the IBM Social Learning Platform and the recently acquired Xtify mobile messaging software to the Softlayer cloud platform. The company also reported that it has signed up 1,100 additional customers since acquiring SoftLayer.
Dennis Quan, IBM vice president of cloud infrastructure services, says the total base of customers using the SoftLayer platform is more than 22,000, and IBM now has over 100 software as a service (SaaS) applications…
To add to its portfolio, IBM also launched an IBM Mobile Feedback application delivered via the cloud that makes it easier to gather employee feedback and an IBM Survey Analytics application that uses text and visual analytics to extract and display over one million pieces of anonymous, unstructured data garnered from employee surveys. IBM also announced that the IBM PureFlex family of integrated servers is now available as a platform option in the IBM SoftLayer cloud…
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