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Mostly operations, I imagine: OS, database & storage administration. While other companies were investing in their employee base, IBM was cutting costs. Much

by wtbob 11y ago

Mostly operations, I imagine: OS, database & storage administration. While other companies were investing in their employee base, IBM was cutting costs. Much like a farmer who eats his seed corn and then has nothing to plant while others steward their resources carefully and see a bumper crop, IBM is seeing the results of over a decade of underinvestment: who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode? While those companies were hiring smart people to design & implement well-crafted systems, IBM was cutting, cutting, cutting, using human beings to do work which is better scripted, underinvesting in automation and generally setting itself up for failure.

eropple 11y ago
> who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode I'd pick CloudFoundry over any of those at a large enterprise shop, and BlueMix is a legit implementation. (As is Pivotal, if that's your bag.)
amyjess 11y ago
> who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode? Why do you think IBM bought Softlayer?
- brandonl222 11y ago
  Who?
  - amyjess 11y ago
    http://softlayer.com http://softlayer.com Surprised you haven't heard of them -- they're a pretty big player in the datacenter space. Also, I know for a fact that a good chunk of Linode's servers are actually hosted at Softlayer DCs (e.g. any Linode server hosted in Dallas is physically at Softlayer's DAL-2 location, which used to be called The Planet). My best friend is a tech there, he joined right after the acquisition, and he tells me that the word around the office is "IBM wanted to have a good cloud business, so they bought one".
    - eropple 11y ago
      Yup. Between Softlayer as an IaaS provider and BlueMix as a PaaS provider, IBM has top-shelf (not the best, but close) cloud talent and tooling. They aren't sexy, which is probably why they don't get much play on HN, but they're important and influential.
cmdrfred 11y ago
With the 100% uptime I have with digital ocean (so far), i'd never go anywhere else.

by wtbob 11y ago

eropple 11y ago

> who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode I'd pick CloudFoundry over any of those at a large enterprise shop, and BlueMix is a legit implementation. (As is Pivotal, if that's your bag.)

amyjess 11y ago

> who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode? Why do you think IBM bought Softlayer?

brandonl222 11y ago
Who?
- amyjess 11y ago
  http://softlayer.com http://softlayer.com Surprised you haven't heard of them -- they're a pretty big player in the datacenter space. Also, I know for a fact that a good chunk of Linode's servers are actually hosted at Softlayer DCs (e.g. any Linode server hosted in Dallas is physically at Softlayer's DAL-2 location, which used to be called The Planet). My best friend is a tech there, he joined right after the acquisition, and he tells me that the word around the office is "IBM wanted to have a good cloud business, so they bought one".
  - eropple 11y ago
    Yup. Between Softlayer as an IaaS provider and BlueMix as a PaaS provider, IBM has top-shelf (not the best, but close) cloud talent and tooling. They aren't sexy, which is probably why they don't get much play on HN, but they're important and influential.

cmdrfred 11y ago

With the 100% uptime I have with digital ocean (so far), i'd never go anywhere else.