SoftLayer CEO: A very Big Blue cloud is coming
October 28, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.
One of the funny things about the cloud is that it’s often difficult to know what’s behind the curtain. Before IBM bought IaaS provider SoftLayer in June, we were hard-pressed to determine precisely what sort of IaaS Big Blue was offering. Yes, they had a virtual server configurator similar to Amazon’s, but the self-service stopped there: you’d tally up your config, submit it, and IBM would get back to you.
Then there was that fuss in July about the SEC investigating IBM to discover exactly how Big Blue was calculating the 70 percent increase in cloud revenue it reported for the first half of 2013 (although, to be fair, cloud-washing like this seems commonplace)…
IBM acquired a big hunk of cloud credibility with the $2 billion it paid for SoftLayer. According to SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby, whom I interviewed last week, SoftLayer has 120,000 physical nodes in 13 data centers. And thanks to IBM, that footprint is poised to get a whole lot bigger. "We’re going to have massive expansion in the next 24 months," Crosby says…
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