IBM Cloud Ranked Second In Worldwide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Recent IDC report highlights IBM's competitive strengths as a provider of public, private and hybrid clouds.
IBM has announced that International Data Corporation (IDC) has identified the IBM Cloud as the second leading global IaaS provider according to its Worldwide Semi-Annual Public Cloud Services Tracker, 2H 2015. The tracker looked at both individual cloud service providers and overall market revenue while assessing the complete gamut of Infrastructure as a Service capabilities including provisioning servers (virtual and bare metal), storage, and networking options.
In its methodology, IDC says that, "cloud services are about what the customer buys, not how the service provider delivers it." The firm goes on to say that its definition of cloud services focuses on what the customer sees and experiences versus how things get delivered. Those choices are important but they don't belong in the definition of an offering category like "cloud services." This takes us out of the religious wars over what the best implementation architectures and technologies are.