IBM channel partners say the company's July acquisition of SoftLayer puts it on the fast track to cloud success and they are eager to offset sagging hardware sales with new cloud revenue. But while ...

IBM says SoftLayer infrastructure will be the foundation of IBM's cloud portfolio. IBM is building its cloud portfolio on the data center infrastructure of Softlayer, its recently acquired $2bn ...

IBM didn't just pick up a hosting company with their acquisition of SoftLayer this week, they picked up a sophisticated data center operations team -- one that could teach IBM Global Technical ...

IBM is shedding the SoftLayer brand and moving its virtual and bare-metal server business to Bluemix, which until now has been known as IBM's software-development platform for the cloud. Much has ...

As part of an effort to ensure it can generate some $7 billion in cloud revenue by 2015, IBM today announced it has acquired SoftLayer Technologies, a provider of cloud computing and hosting services.

A year after acquiring SoftLayer, IBM’s cloud business is one of the company's fastest-growing success stories. The $2 billion acquisition of SoftLayer last July has helped IBM, in two short years, go ...

IBM said on Tuesday that it has entered an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, a portfolio company of GI Partners. No financial terms were disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in ...

OpenStack users running their workloads on IBM’s SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure took it calmly when the company’s object storage development lead, Brian Cline, announced that SoftLayer is going ...

In the past year or so I've become really bullish about IBM's cloud and broader technology story. Big bets like the Softlayer acquisition, difficult decisions like dropping their Smart Cloud product ...

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IBM said Tuesday it would acquire Web hosting company SoftLayer Technologies and create a new division for clients interested in so-called cloud services, a move to better compete with larger rivals ...

IBM is making it easier for enterprises to move their cloud workloads across different OpenStack deployments, giving them greater flexibility in where they can run their applications. The company has ...