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IBM and Public Clouds - The Empire Strikes Back

08/28/2013 | Research

With IaaS becoming a mainstream market, the cloud is clearly established as the defining model for 21st century information systems architectures, even though conventional systems and infrastructures will not fade away anytime soon.

Following Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and private clouds, public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), is gaining momentum with mainstream customers.

Public IaaS is no longer solely relegated to test and development uses, but now rather routinely considered and evaluated, if not always adopted, for core information system applications.

With this evolution, enter the heavyweights of IT, and in particular IBM.

War for the Cloud: What's new with BT Cloud Compute?

05/20/2013 | Research

2013 is shaping up as a big year in the war for the cloud and especially for IaaS.

On the supply side, global IT players such as Microsoft and Google are challenging Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the high volume “Commodity IaaS” market. Other players such as IBM, CSC and Orange are focusing on the high value “Enterprise Class” space, with offerings that include well structured “IaaS Management Services”.

The battle is also heating up in the enterprise grade, self-service space. A recent example was the announcement by BT, the British telco, of the expanded availability of BT Cloud Compute.

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