IBM is positioning its SmartCloud and SoftLayer platforms to capitalize on growing demand for cloud computing. SoftLayer provides a global cloud infrastructure platform with robust APIs, extensive customization options, and proven performance for high-intensity workloads. IBM plans to integrate SoftLayer across its sales, support, and technology teams to deliver a unified cloud platform optimized for both web-native and enterprise workloads. This will strengthen IBM's cloud strategy by combining SoftLayer's infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities with IBM's software and services portfolio.
IBM Softlayer Bluemix Marketplace
API Economy
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
IaaS PaaS SaaS
Register for Bluemix at http://ibm.biz/BluemixSBSS
See Softlayer at http://ibm.biz/SBSlideShareSL
Join the Marketplace at http://ibm.biz/SBSlideShareMP
A nice overview of IBM BlueMix - How it can be used, benefits for the user and how to sign up and use for FREE
Bluemix is an implementation of IBM's Open Cloud Architecture, leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks
IBM Softlayer Bluemix Marketplace
API Economy
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
IaaS PaaS SaaS
Register for Bluemix at http://ibm.biz/BluemixSBSS
See Softlayer at http://ibm.biz/SBSlideShareSL
Join the Marketplace at http://ibm.biz/SBSlideShareMP
A nice overview of IBM BlueMix - How it can be used, benefits for the user and how to sign up and use for FREE
Bluemix is an implementation of IBM's Open Cloud Architecture, leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks
Developing for Hybrid Cloud with BluemixRoberto Pozzi
How can you get all the benefits of developing your application in the cloud and guarantee a secure integration in a Hybrid Cloud scenario?
This deck, presented at IBM CloudKnow event in October 2014, explains how to do it with @IBMBluemix, the Platform as a Service solution from IBM.
The application is available on http://cloudknow-italy-web.mybluemix.net/home.html.
Hybrid Cloud with IBM Bluemix, Docker and Open Stackgjuljo
IBM Bluemix is not just a PaaS any longer: by including Docker and Open Stack, IBM Bluemix is the Digital Innovation Platform for an Hybrid Cloud that seamless embraces both IaaS and PaaS.
IBM Bluemix Dedicated – GitHub EnterpriseIBM DevOps
The first Hybrid GitHub as a service delivered on a dedicated cloud: Bluemix Dedicated, IBM’s open standards-based cloud platform – helping clients:
-- Change the way people work in the enterprise; open, transparent, collaborative/sharing, a-sync, distributed
-- Respond to change faster by accelerating application delivery for large-scale enterprise DevOps teams
-- Reduce the cost and burden of infrastructure maintenance and DevOps toolchain support
IBM BlueMix Architecture and Deep Dive (Powered by CloudFoundry) Animesh Singh
meetup.com/Bluemix
meetup.com/CloudFoundry/
In this meetup, we discussed the architecture and demonstrated IBM BlueMix, public Platform-as-a-Service offering based on Cloud Foundry
David Cass discusses the role of security and how best practices can be used to accelerate cloud adoption and success.
Learn more by visiting our Bluemix Hybrid page: http://ibm.co/1PKN23h
Speaker: David Cass (Vice President, Cloud and SaaS CISO)
Client Deployment of IBM Cloud Private (IBM #Think2019 #5964)Michael Elder
As you plan for the adoption of Kubernetes in your datacenter, you’ll face several common questions. How much capacity will your clusters need? How should you manage the network security of the cluster? How do you expose services on the cluster to your existing network fabric? What are the tradeoffs to consider between different storage providers? What should you do for backup and disaster recovery scenarios? In this session, we’ll review several examples of client deployment architectures that will help you get started on your journey to a hybrid, multicloud architecture for your apps!
#8311: Transform the Enterprise with IBM Cloud PrivateMichael Elder
Does your organization need to improve development agility and operational efficiency? Does it also need to accelerate the delivery of applications to market? Bottom line: do you need to become cloud native with your application development, but face security and compliance challenges that limit your adoption of public cloud? The enterprise needs a platform on which it can create new, cloud native applications, modernize and optimize existing ones, and gain access to capabilities in public cloud for secure integration with applications being developed behind the firewall. The new IBM Cloud Private helps your organization meet these enterprise challenges. Come learn more about IBM Cloud Private and how you can leverage it.
Presented at IBM Think 2018.
Portable Apps across IBM Kubernetes Service and IBM Cloud Private (#Think2019...Michael Elder
Building apps to run in your local Kubernetes or managed Kubernetes environment is easy and straightforward. A common packaging mechanism based on container images and open source Helm to distribute your Kubernetes apps can be produced to your continuous delivery pipeline. These apps can then be deployed wherever needed. Deploying in your datacenter? Great! You can run Kubernetes with IBM Cloud Private anywhere! Want Kubernetes but don’t want to manage it yourself? Great! You can consume Kubernetes-as-a-Service with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service! In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage each of these offerings to build and run apps. We’ll also cover some of the nuances of running in a hybrid cloud operating model.
How do you deliver your applications to the cloud?Michael Elder
Cloud, Docker, Bluemix, and DevOps. You feel the pressure of a hyper-competitive marketplace, and you want to win. Your goal is to deliver apps to that make your users happy and excited about your brand and products, but how do you do that? In this talk, we'll provide a technical briefing for how you can use a DevOps-enabled toolchain to deliver your apps with speed and reliability to the cloud platform of your choice. We'll review how UrbanCode Deploy can deliver your applications to OpenStack, IBM SoftLayer, Amazon, and VMWare with a consistent and portable Infrastructure-as-a-Service approach; or how you can use Containers and Cloud Foundry for app tiers that change potentially many times a day. We’ll also focus in on some exciting new capabilities on our roadmap around Toolchains, Pipelines, Insights, and Releases.
Come take a look and ask your questions, and hopefully come away with a game plan to improve your delivery process today.
This presentation was delivered by me in University Relations program of IBM to the students of XMIE, Bangalore.
All tech and info is copyright of IBM. All info in this presentation is available on IBM Cloud Public Site.
DevOps within the Hybrid Cloud Deploying to the VMware Platform on the IBM CloudMichael Elder
Delivering quickly means leaving automation across applications and infrastructure as a wholistic approach to development, test, and operations. At IBM, we've made it easy to extend your existing VMware platform onto IBM Cloud - from provisioning new VMware clusters with vRealize Automation management all the way through deploying and operating your applications using IBM UrbanCode Deploy, the market leading DevOps release automation provider. We'll show you how to optimize existing app delivery processes without significantly re-architecting what you're running today. We will demonstrate how the creation of infrastructure automation can be done seamlessly onto the Cloud Foundation platform with direct UrbanCode integration into vRealize.
Technical overview in relation to the IBM SmartCloud offering (Private Cloud - IaaS) for IBM i customers: the reference architecture leverages IBM PowerVM virtualisation and IBM VMControl virtualisation and automation management capabilities. Self service portal, VM provisioning, metering and billing are provided by IBM SmartCloud Entry.
Developing for Hybrid Cloud with BluemixRoberto Pozzi
How can you get all the benefits of developing your application in the cloud and guarantee a secure integration in a Hybrid Cloud scenario?
This deck, presented at IBM CloudKnow event in October 2014, explains how to do it with @IBMBluemix, the Platform as a Service solution from IBM.
The application is available on http://cloudknow-italy-web.mybluemix.net/home.html.
Hybrid Cloud with IBM Bluemix, Docker and Open Stackgjuljo
IBM Bluemix is not just a PaaS any longer: by including Docker and Open Stack, IBM Bluemix is the Digital Innovation Platform for an Hybrid Cloud that seamless embraces both IaaS and PaaS.
IBM Bluemix Dedicated – GitHub EnterpriseIBM DevOps
The first Hybrid GitHub as a service delivered on a dedicated cloud: Bluemix Dedicated, IBM’s open standards-based cloud platform – helping clients:
-- Change the way people work in the enterprise; open, transparent, collaborative/sharing, a-sync, distributed
-- Respond to change faster by accelerating application delivery for large-scale enterprise DevOps teams
-- Reduce the cost and burden of infrastructure maintenance and DevOps toolchain support
IBM BlueMix Architecture and Deep Dive (Powered by CloudFoundry) Animesh Singh
meetup.com/Bluemix
meetup.com/CloudFoundry/
In this meetup, we discussed the architecture and demonstrated IBM BlueMix, public Platform-as-a-Service offering based on Cloud Foundry
David Cass discusses the role of security and how best practices can be used to accelerate cloud adoption and success.
Learn more by visiting our Bluemix Hybrid page: http://ibm.co/1PKN23h
Speaker: David Cass (Vice President, Cloud and SaaS CISO)
Client Deployment of IBM Cloud Private (IBM #Think2019 #5964)Michael Elder
As you plan for the adoption of Kubernetes in your datacenter, you’ll face several common questions. How much capacity will your clusters need? How should you manage the network security of the cluster? How do you expose services on the cluster to your existing network fabric? What are the tradeoffs to consider between different storage providers? What should you do for backup and disaster recovery scenarios? In this session, we’ll review several examples of client deployment architectures that will help you get started on your journey to a hybrid, multicloud architecture for your apps!
#8311: Transform the Enterprise with IBM Cloud PrivateMichael Elder
Does your organization need to improve development agility and operational efficiency? Does it also need to accelerate the delivery of applications to market? Bottom line: do you need to become cloud native with your application development, but face security and compliance challenges that limit your adoption of public cloud? The enterprise needs a platform on which it can create new, cloud native applications, modernize and optimize existing ones, and gain access to capabilities in public cloud for secure integration with applications being developed behind the firewall. The new IBM Cloud Private helps your organization meet these enterprise challenges. Come learn more about IBM Cloud Private and how you can leverage it.
Presented at IBM Think 2018.
Portable Apps across IBM Kubernetes Service and IBM Cloud Private (#Think2019...Michael Elder
Building apps to run in your local Kubernetes or managed Kubernetes environment is easy and straightforward. A common packaging mechanism based on container images and open source Helm to distribute your Kubernetes apps can be produced to your continuous delivery pipeline. These apps can then be deployed wherever needed. Deploying in your datacenter? Great! You can run Kubernetes with IBM Cloud Private anywhere! Want Kubernetes but don’t want to manage it yourself? Great! You can consume Kubernetes-as-a-Service with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service! In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage each of these offerings to build and run apps. We’ll also cover some of the nuances of running in a hybrid cloud operating model.
How do you deliver your applications to the cloud?Michael Elder
Cloud, Docker, Bluemix, and DevOps. You feel the pressure of a hyper-competitive marketplace, and you want to win. Your goal is to deliver apps to that make your users happy and excited about your brand and products, but how do you do that? In this talk, we'll provide a technical briefing for how you can use a DevOps-enabled toolchain to deliver your apps with speed and reliability to the cloud platform of your choice. We'll review how UrbanCode Deploy can deliver your applications to OpenStack, IBM SoftLayer, Amazon, and VMWare with a consistent and portable Infrastructure-as-a-Service approach; or how you can use Containers and Cloud Foundry for app tiers that change potentially many times a day. We’ll also focus in on some exciting new capabilities on our roadmap around Toolchains, Pipelines, Insights, and Releases.
Come take a look and ask your questions, and hopefully come away with a game plan to improve your delivery process today.
This presentation was delivered by me in University Relations program of IBM to the students of XMIE, Bangalore.
All tech and info is copyright of IBM. All info in this presentation is available on IBM Cloud Public Site.
DevOps within the Hybrid Cloud Deploying to the VMware Platform on the IBM CloudMichael Elder
Delivering quickly means leaving automation across applications and infrastructure as a wholistic approach to development, test, and operations. At IBM, we've made it easy to extend your existing VMware platform onto IBM Cloud - from provisioning new VMware clusters with vRealize Automation management all the way through deploying and operating your applications using IBM UrbanCode Deploy, the market leading DevOps release automation provider. We'll show you how to optimize existing app delivery processes without significantly re-architecting what you're running today. We will demonstrate how the creation of infrastructure automation can be done seamlessly onto the Cloud Foundation platform with direct UrbanCode integration into vRealize.
Technical overview in relation to the IBM SmartCloud offering (Private Cloud - IaaS) for IBM i customers: the reference architecture leverages IBM PowerVM virtualisation and IBM VMControl virtualisation and automation management capabilities. Self service portal, VM provisioning, metering and billing are provided by IBM SmartCloud Entry.
What's New in IBM SmartCloud Connections - May 2014Luis Benitez
This presentation provides an overview of the new features coming to IBM SmartCloud Connections, which has the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, file sync, instant messaging, and communities. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
This is a quick deck of slides that I use to explain why and how I use Slideshare in the context of the Club Alliances and, since 2011, of the Club Cloud des Partenaires [IBM]
IBM SmartCloud Connections Overview - Q2 2014Luis Benitez
This presentation provides an overview of the features available in IBM SmartCloud Connections, which has the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, instant messaging, and communities. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
IBM Messaging and Collaboration Roadmap - Notes and Domino update - December ...Ed Brill
An update on IBM's Messaging and Collaboration software solutions, including IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition and other updates and innovations.
2012.02.09 - Leveraging the IBM Cloud Partner Ecosystem - Cloud Top Gun - Loi...Club Cloud des Partenaires
This is presentation material I prepared about IBM Cloud Partner Ecosystem.
Target audience for the 45 mn session it supports is mostly IBM Sellers from SWG [Software] and STG [Hardware] attending the Cloud Top Gun education.
The emergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data and analytics are fundamentally changing how we live, work and interact.
Mobile devices are ubiquitous. Changing consumer behaviors, supplanting PCs, generating massive amounts of data and putting new demands on the enterprise to not only support these devices but to adjust the way they do business.
Social technologies are changing the way we interact, communicate and share information – equally generating vast amounts of data and impacting business as they try to unlock the full potential social has to offer.
Cloud technologies bring new scale and efficiency to service delivery and enable more agile ways of doing business and drive business model innovation. For companies, It also brings information and applications to people at the right time and place.
All of these trends are fueling an explosion of data. Not only do enterprises need to store, manage and secure this data, they also need to derive meaningful insight from these vast amounts of data. Data is the basis of significant opportunity and a source of competitive advantage for all organizations. Data is a new economic asset, the next natural resource.
These trends are spawning new workloads, business processes and technology deployments that are putting unprecedented demands on our IT environments.
How IBM is helping developers win the race to innovate with next-gen cloud se...Michael Elder
In the race to transform, enterprises employ cloud to deliver innovation and stay ahead of the competition. New services are built natively on cloud, but what about the 80% of enterprise applications that have not yet moved to the cloud.
In this session, we'll answer these questions: How do I integrate next-gen technology like Blockchain, Watson IoT, and Data &AI into my new applications? How do I make multicloud an advantage instead of adding new complexity?
#bluemixdrone is at Southbank for the IBM Service Advisory ExchangeBrandon Jones
A rapid 30 minute brief and demonstration of how anything can be delivered as a service with IBM Cloud and Bluemix. The #bluemixdrone was hit by crowd-storms three times in 90 minutes, a new record!
How an organisation can leverage the Cloud for delivering fast growth. The presentation covers various aspects of the Cloud ranging from BPaaS, SaaS, IaaS and PaaS and how an organisation can go about leveraging each of them for business growth. The presentation was part of Keynote presented at the IBM Cloud Innovation Forum India by Christian Klezl, Vice President, Cloud Solution Sales, IBM Corporation.
Building a hybrid, dynamic cloud on an open architectureDaniel Krook
Daniel Krook's version of the IBM open cloud overview, focusing on the business and technological imperatives driving the IBM strategy for customers.
Presented 9/30 and 10/1 at Boston TechFest, Cambridge, MA.
How to utilize cloud in your corporate IT strategy Jason Baker
A joint presentation given by Paul Selway from Red Path and Jason Baker from VISI regarding how enterprises can leverage cloud computing in their IT strategy.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Since our CEO Study series began, technology – in its widest sense – has progressively risen on CEOs’ radar and now ranks as the #1 factor impacting organizations.
From 2004 – 2012, we’ve interviewed more than 6,500 CEOs
2012 Study: 1700 CEOs interviewed: 64 countries, 18 industries
This year, CEOs told us that technology will be the top driver of change in the next three years, surpassing “market forces” for the first time. Most surprising, however, is its expected impact. They told us that what will be most critical and potentially differentiating will be how they engage people – connecting employees, customers and partners both to organizations and to each other in new ways.
CEOs – told us that they will simplify their operations and products to better manage complexity.
In fact, simplifying needless complexity was seen by many CEOs as a critical element to better coping with the increasing complexity in their environment.
Similar to our CEO Study, we also survey CIOs and produce a regular IBM CIO study
In 2011, we interviewed more than 3,000 CIOs and learned that CIOs and business leaders believe Analytics, Mobility, Virtualization, Cloud and Security are the most important technologies
The CIO study reveals an unprecedented shift toward these technologies to innovate and solve specific business challenges
Analytics is the foundation for driving better insights and decision making across these key technologies
Mobility solutions deliver applications and data to their users when they need it, and on the device they choose
Virtualization is more mainstream and integrated into every day workloads
Cloud computing offers the potential for more efficient access to data, disaster recovery, and the ability to process large amounts of data quickly
Security intelligence solutions address key threats and compliance challenges and enable secure business
In this hypothetical example, an electrical utility might exploit a Systems of Engagement model to extend the reach of their traditional IT applications to customers and other utility workers to
gather outage information,
prioritize responses,
communicate with temporary workers form other utility companies dispatched to help,
and update customers with status on work priorities, locations an estimated times for resumptions of services.
Over time the company learns form the applications they needed to develop and deploy quickly to coordinate their response by integrating them more deeply into their traditional IT systems.
Cloud technology and polyglot development tools and services allowed the utility to quickly develop and deploy the systems of engagement in response to the disaster, bridging them to their systems of record to help in response and customer communication.
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That’s a bit about what we expect from SoftLayer – but we have been hard at work around delivering a world class, differentiated cloud portfolio.
We view the acquisition of SoftLayer as complementary – rapidly expanding IBM’s capabilities through tight linkage of our organic spend and acquisitions combined with our industry expertise and ability to scale globally. This approach is the basis of our growth strategy.
Based on open standards technologies (including OpenStack) and a broad ecosystem of industry partners, IBM has built SmartCloud technologies for every stage of cloud adoption. The value to our clients comes from the interoperability it enables within their own infrastructures. As all our cloud technology is built on top of a common open-standards based reference architecture, its gives our clients flexibility and choice in how they consume cloud technologies. With greater confidence that things will work together with a degree of portability….enabling a hybrid approach.
Our cloud capabilities are organized into 3 simple areas. SmartCloud Foundation, the integrated set of cloud enablement technologies for private and hybrid Clouds. These are technologies that our customers can use to build their own private clouds. SmartCloud Services, the IBM cloud platform designed for enterprise-class service delivery with PaaS/IaaS managed services. IBM SmartCloud service delivery platform is built upon the very same SmartCloud Foundation technologies that our clients are using. And SmartCloud Solutions, our growing list of business and industry solutions on the Cloud offered as SaaS. Capabilities such as Collaboration, B2B Integration, Digital Marketing Optimization… all delivered via SaaS.
SoftLayer brings proven success with cloud-centric born-on-the-web workloads that deliver at Internet scale. The solutions that customers have built run in markets that we don’t typically see at IBM. Markets/segments like
Online gaming
Digital marketing
Social networking / Web apps
Mobile Applications
High performance computing
Big Data / DB Management
And what this tells you is that they deliver a platform that internet centric business will bet and do bet their business on. It’s a testament to how robust this technology is!
That’s a bit about what we expect from SoftLayer – but we have been hard at work around delivering a world class, differentiated cloud portfolio.
We view the acquisition of SoftLayer as complementary – rapidly expanding IBM’s capabilities through tight linkage of our organic spend and acquisitions combined with our industry expertise and ability to scale globally. This approach is the basis of our growth strategy.
Based on open standards technologies (including OpenStack) and a broad ecosystem of industry partners, IBM has built SmartCloud technologies for every stage of cloud adoption. The value to our clients comes from the interoperability it enables within their own infrastructures. As all our cloud technology is built on top of a common open-standards based reference architecture, its gives our clients flexibility and choice in how they consume cloud technologies. With greater confidence that things will work together with a degree of portability….enabling a hybrid approach.
Our cloud capabilities are organized into 3 simple areas. SmartCloud Foundation, the integrated set of cloud enablement technologies for private and hybrid Clouds. These are technologies that our customers can use to build their own private clouds. SmartCloud Services, the IBM cloud platform designed for enterprise-class service delivery with PaaS/IaaS managed services. IBM SmartCloud service delivery platform is built upon the very same SmartCloud Foundation technologies that our clients are using. And SmartCloud Solutions, our growing list of business and industry solutions on the Cloud offered as SaaS. Capabilities such as Collaboration, B2B Integration, Digital Marketing Optimization… all delivered via SaaS.
SoftLayer brings proven success with cloud-centric born-on-the-web workloads that deliver at Internet scale. The solutions that customers have built run in markets that we don’t typically see at IBM. Markets/segments like
Online gaming
Digital marketing
Social networking / Web apps
Mobile Applications
High performance computing
Big Data / DB Management
And what this tells you is that they deliver a platform that internet centric business will bet and do bet their business on. It’s a testament to how robust this technology is!
In the early days, in 2006-2007, SoftLayer focused on traditional hosters, service providers, companies out there buying more traditional hosting.
2007 through about 2010 they saw the explosion of Internet-centric businesses out there. Companies wrapped around social networking, social gaming, the explosion of all things wrapped around Facebook and companies like that.
And then about 24 months ago, they saw the enterprise coming to the market and start buying cloud services en masse and in real dollars.
And this technology is deployed at scale today.
Whether it is at companies like:
Repsol S.A. a Spanish multinational oil and gas company based in Madrid, Spain. It is the 15th largest petroleum refining company according to the Fortune Global 500 list,[3] employing over 40,000 people worldwide.
Or LAN Airlines S.A. a group of South American Airlines based in Santiago, Chile and part of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest Airline holding.
Companies like that are moving and/or have moved a great portion of their production, infrastructure to the platform at SoftLayer.
Additionally there are exciting, innovative Internet centric companies like Fitbit Inc. and products lie , the Fitbit Tracker, a wireless-enabled wearable device that measures data such as the number of steps walked, quality of sleep, and other personal metrics.
Or Bump an application created by Bump Technologies for the Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems, that allows two smartphone users to physically bump their phones together to transfer contact information, photos, and files to each other over the Internet.
You can look at the rest of these. What do they have in common?
Internet Scale
Innovation
A reliance on the underlying platform.
That says a lot about the technology that SoftLayer delivers!
Referenced Clients from CMO @ SoftLayer and approved for high-level reference:
SaaS:, BaseCase, HotelsCombined
Social: Path, Slideshare
Mobile: Bump, Fitbit, MagmaMobile
Marketing/Digital Media: Struq, Simpli.fi
Games: KIXEYE, Peak Games, 6waves, Garena
Hosting/Service Providers: ZipServers, MidPhase, Distil Networks, MailChimp
Enterprise (if needed): Repsol, LAN Airlines
SaaS:
MailChimp – more than 3 million people use MailChimp to design and send e-mail marketing campaigns. Supported by SoftLayer infrastructure.
Big Data:
10gen – SoftLayer offers bundled solutions with 10gen’s MongoDB deployed on pre-configured servers
PaaS:
Cloudant – provides scalable NoSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on SoftLayer’s servers to mobile and web app. developers with big data needs.
Hosting/Service Providers:
XO Communications – uses SoftLayer infrastructure to provide hosted services for some of their customers.
Social:
twitpic – application used for sharing photos and videos in real-time on twitter running on SoftLayer’s servers.
Path – instant messaging app. that is powered by Softlayer infrastructure. Path is integrated with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Instagram.
Mobile:
Yelp – global search site used for finding businesses as well as reading and writing reviews. Used by consumers around the world and supported by SoftLayer infrastructure.
Let’s look at some examples of their workload capability further
Many large IT and Telcos need their own IaaS service – and they have used Softlayer APIs and white label to do so, like AT&T
The emergence of big data and hadoop workloads means partnering with leading providers like Mongo/10 gen can bring NoSQl dbs and IaaS to build apps targeting big data workloads
When building solutions, control, billing, and management – such as those offered thru Parallels as a pre-integrated solution
We will use SoftLayer’s partner programs – so let’s look at three of their programs to better understand their capability
Referral
Reseller
Distributors & Strategic
Strategic partner
Channel sales includes inside sales and enterprise sales reps and pro-active, targeting certain
Let’s take a brief look at how to best position SL’s competitive advantage.
There are three areas of advantage over AWS and Rackspace: I/O , Control, and Integrated platform
As with any acquisition of this size, this will be a multi-year journey but want to make it very clear to the market that we will take SoftLayer today - expand and grow.
We want to continue to build a set of partnerships and relationships and have the ease of access that is appropriate for what, in IBM's view, is the SMB, or the enterprise business in our client base. So the beauty of cloud for us, it gives us an extended reach into markets that historically have been harder for us to reach. And we'll do that on a worldwide basis.
From a technical standpoint, we will converge what we have in market with the SoftLayer platform. We'll extend the SoftLayer capabilities to recognize Tier 1 storage and some other capabilities that are relevant to our client base and then bring that forward as a single set of SmartCloud infrastructure services within the SmartCloud organization.
Starting at close we will start the convergence of SmartCloud Services with SoftLayer technology. We will start with SmartCloud Enterprise and provide a solid platform for innovative cloud-centric workloads.
Then we will see other parts of IBM factoring existing or building new SmartCloud Solutions on SmartCloud infrastructure services. You'll see this not just as a GTS platform but as a cross-IBM platform.
Additionally because we are building on OpenStack – other OpenStack technologies from across IBM can be instantiated on SmartCloud infrastructure services.
A year or so out – we will converge the marquee SmartCloud Enterprise+ offering along with the optional managed services into the SmartCloud infrastructure services offering – extending and expanding value – giving customers increased choice and flexibility.
Now if we move above the line… to Go-to-Market.
We will start by keeping the SoftLayer IMS in market while at the same time standing up the SmartCloud Infrastructure Services worldwide executing in local currency and local language – something vital to customers – both enterprise and SMB.
We will work closely with new colleagues in SoftLayer – who as we said earlier we want to keep as independent as possible.
The converged SmartCloud Infrastructure Services will be delivered not just by IBM, but also by partners. Partners like Managed Service Providers (MSP) who aggregate services from multiple providers – delivering value to customers – in SMB but in larger enterprises as well.
We will continue to drive SoftLayer and SmartCloud Infrastructure Services across IBM – as a platform for rapid innovation and transformation.
So getting back to what I said in the beginning this is truly an exciting announcement for IBM as a company and for our customers and partners alike. It’s exciting because it show that IBM is poised to lead in this tectonic shift in computing, just the way we have led out other shifts in our history.
With the acquisition of SoftLayer we are looking to continue to invest to deliver value. To help accelerate our strategy and as we accelerate – we help our customers accelerate the transformational projects that they are eager to launch.
SoftLayer adds technology and when paired with what we have in SmartCloud, expert business and technical services, and the expected solutions on top of the SmartCloud platform – we are poised to lead.
But you can start today. Feel confident that your investment in IBM cloud services will be protected as we integrate SoftLayer capabilities. For SCE customers, improved quality and an accelerated introduction of feature/function will materialize rapidly as SCE is converged with the SoftLayer delivery infrastructure and management toolsets.
Over time we will be converging the SmartCloud Enterprise+ offering with Softlayer. However, the current SCE+ offering is expected to be on the market for an extended period of time, remaining focused on serving the needs of cloud-enabled workloads, and the current roadmap up to and including R1.4 will be executed without change. Post R1.4, we plan to focus any new development on the converged SoftLayer-IBM based infrastructure, bringing to market a unified offering to address the full range of workloads from cloud-native to cloud-enabled.