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> We found IBM’s Softlayer to be highly “new-user” friendly, which greatly expedited the process of configuring and ordering an instance That's surprising. Usu
by rdtsc 9y ago
> We found IBM’s Softlayer to be highly “new-user” friendly, which greatly expedited the process of configuring and ordering an instance
That's surprising. Usually the complaint is that IBM's stuff if complicated to figure out and Google and others are "user-friendly".
> Softlayer is also the only platform that allows the provisioning of bare metal servers amongst the 3 cloud service providers,
Wonder if there is an opportunity there to deploy Kubernetes on it and manage it on your own. Before cloud orchestration was the super-secret-money-making sauce, but lately with some solutions being open source maybe that's changing and bare metal servers would become popular again. Wonder in general if Google talking about Borg and sponsoring Kubernetes was aimed at weakening Amazon's AWS's position.
- ktta 9y ago>> Softlayer is also the only platform that allows the provisioning of bare metal servers amongst the 3 cloud service providers Amazon recently announced bare-metal servers https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-i...
- boilerupnc 9y ago> ... deploy Kubernetes on it and manage it on your own. Yep. IBM Cloud Private, a self-managed K8s based orchestration platform can be deployed on bare metal.
- hbbio 9y agoFrom the article: "We gratefully acknowledge support by AI Grant and IBM Global Entrepreneurship program, which made these (sometimes costly) experiments possible."