An IBM subsidiary has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Peace Corps to provide a cloud-based technology for the agency to recruit and engage volunteers. Kenexa will help the Peace Corps implement IBM’s recruitment and talent management platform that is designed to run on a SoftLayer cloud infrastructure designed for government organizations, IBM said Thursday. […] More
IBM has consolidated the Blue Box private cloud-as-a-service into its global data center infrastructure that runs SoftLayer. The OpenStack-powered Blue Box Cloud, recently acquired by IBM, has been added to the OpenStack portfolio to help customers operate public cloud, IBM said Wednesday. “Today, we've taken a big step toward our goal of delivering private clouds to customers […] More
IBM has integrated Nvidia's dual graphics processing unit boards with its cloud-based SoftLayer bare metal servers in an effort to help companies manage analytics and big data workloads in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday customers will now be able to use Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on its IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform to handle […] More
IBM has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission to host federal workloads in the company's Softlayer cloud environment, Nextgov reported Thursday. Frank Konkel writes IBM's Ashburn, Virginia and Richardson, Texas-based data centers received the FCC's authorization to run government applications. “IBM’s federal cloud business has reached another milestone as we continue to work with federal agencies […] More
IBM has opened a new cloud center in Sydney, Australia as part of efforts to expand the company's cloud services in the country amid growing demand. The SoftLayer cloud center is meant to broaden data redundancy options within Australia and the Asia Pacific region for enterprise and Web infrastructure services, IBM said Tuesday. IBM is offering […] More
Carnegie Mellon University is set to deploy an IBM cloud-based analytics platform under a facility management partnership aimed at helping the academic institution use data to manage its building systems. IBM said Thursday that CMU aims to use IBM technology to monitor systems utilization on the university’s 36-building Pittsburgh campus and save up to $2 […] More
IBM has introduced a fresh analytics platform offering for customers in the energy and utility sector with the goal of helping companies integrate the technology into their energy ecosystem. Companies will be able to view an entire grid from the transformer level using the cloud-based platform delivered via the SoftLayer infrastructure, IBM said Tuesday. Brad Gammons, […] More
Nubity has joined IBM‘s cloud entrepreneur program in a move to expand Nubity’s cloud services worldwide. The Mexico City-based startup company partners with IBM’s SoftLayer Catalyst program to access an open cloud infrastructure, executive mentorship and an ecosystem of customers, IBM said Friday. “Through a comprehensive mix of consulting, a robust ecosystem and scalable global cloud infrastructure, Nubity is helping its clients […] More
IBM has released a new version of its cloud-based application development and delivery platform in an effort to help developers build applications around their data. The updated, single-tenant version of Bluemix works to give organizations control over where data is stored, IBM said Thursday. “With Bluemix Dedicated now available in our global cloud center network, IBM is adding […] More
IBM has put together a new suite of tools designed to keep cloud data protected through the use of smart analytics technology. The Dynamic Cloud Security portfolio is a collection of the company’s software and services curated by its engineers in the past year to provide offerings for visibility, management of security operations, control of data and to authenticate access to applications in the hybrid cloud, IBM said […] More
