Ingram Micro Extends Cloud Alliance with IBM

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

There’s a world of difference between one shopping experience and another. With that in mind Ingram Micro has invested heavily in building the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, through which solution providers can automate both the acquisition and provisioning of cloud services.

The latest addition to the cloud services to the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace as of today is the IBM SoftLayer cloud service. While Ingram Micro has a long standing relationship with IBM, this latest effort extends that partnership to allow solution providers to fully automate the deployment of a cloud service that gives customers access to both virtual and bare-metal servers…

Renee Bergeron, vice president of global cloud computing for Ingram Micro, said that in general solution providers are starting to better associate different cloud services with specific types of application workload requirements. As such, Bergeron said it’s not uncommon now to see solution providers carrying 12 or more multiple cloud infrastructure and application providers to their line cards; some of which inevitably overlap in terms of the services they provide…

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