Since IBM’s acquisition of cloud computing giant, SoftLayer in 2013, has become the galvanising force behind IBM’s rapid acceleration to cloud leadership, fuelling enterprise customers with the broadest, deepest, most integrated enterprise-grade cloud on the market.
SoftLayer’s technology leadership in cloud computing infrastructure-public, private and hybrid, powers the IBM Cloud’s open, automated, security-rich high-performance environment.
Currently at the foundation of the IBM Cloud portfolio, SoftLayer delivers improved operational efficiency and empowers customers to react at the speed of the market.
Nigeria CommunicationsWeek spoke with IBM team recently in Lagos, Nigeria about the company’s Softlayer acquisition and its effect on its global and local hybrid cloud strategy.
One year after the IBM – SoftLayer marriage, IBM Cloud is leading the hybrid cloud era by integrating systems of engagement with systems of record, delivering new systems of insight and enabling innovative new business models.
Even, the global expansion of SoftLayer data centers entails that with over $1.2 billion being invested to expand into new markets around the world, the IBM Cloud is accelerating enterprise cloud adoption globally—and driving global innovation and extending the options to enable growth for both clients and IT providers.
According to Adeniran Kehinde, territory manager, IBM Nigeria, “IBM’s Cloud clients are realising the power of the SoftLayer platform to meet their demands by giving them a path to agility. Recent client wins demonstrate success for all types of companies, from those born on the web to enterprises.
“IBM Bluemix™ on SoftLayer provides developers a sophisticated yet easy-to-use platform for building cloud applications and services. Designed to accelerate the development of services, IBM Bluemix allows developers to use run times and services of their choosing”
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He added that IBM Cloud marketplace—introduced over the last 12 months —brings together IBM’s vast portfolio of cloud capabilities and third-party services.
“Developers, IT managers and business leaders use the IBM Cloud marketplace to easily access, discover, try, build, purchase and consume cloud services from IBM,” Kehinde added.
IBM Cloud ecosystem continues to expand
Building a best-in-class ecosystem of cloud service providers, IBM continues to grow our cloud ecosystem of business partners.
Through the newly created SoftLayer Services and Solution provider program to the IBM Cloud marketplace, IBM is providing an ideal environment for business partners and independent software vendors to monetize their solutions as cloud services for the enterprise.