Perhaps it was facetious to say that IBM can't build clouds. A more realistic viewpoint is that they don't have significant expertise building large commodity i

Perhaps it was facetious to say that IBM can't build clouds. A more realistic viewpoint is that they don't have significant expertise building large commodity infrastructures. There are definitely places where IBM plays well, but commodity clouds aren't one of them, at least to my mind. If you need a high-end computing cluster that's bigger than the max Amazon instances, that would definitely be a place where IBM could play, it's just not a place I see SoftLayer playing. You're right though; There is more than one way to skin a cat or a cloud.