The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), founded in 1911, manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.
Rackspace announced OnMetal this week at the Gigaom Structure 2014 conference in San Francisco. According to their blog: “OnMetal offers single-tenant, bare-metal servers that users can spin up or down as… Read more »
Flash-based storage service Pure Storage just got its hands on a big bundle of patents from IBM, which should gird it for its ongoing IP fights. Read more »
SoftLayer’s Lance Crosby explained at Structure how IBM’s purchase benefited the company, the cloud-storage wars and what he tells CIOs about the cloud. Read more »
Dropbox continues its acquisition spree, this week pulling in MobileSpan, a provider of mobile apps for secure editing of Office documents behind corporate firewalls. This is clearly in line with Dropbox’s… Read more »
AWS, Google, Microsoft et al. have a huge appetite for unique IP addresses, but except for Amazon’s ELB, they don’t support IPv6. Expect that to change in the near future. Read more »
IBM’s attempt to sell off its chip design and manufacturing expertise to Globalfoundries appears to be nearing completion, Bloomberg reports. Read more »
On this week’s podcast we talk infrastructure — and what next-gen startups will need to fuel their grand plans. All of which is on the agenda for Structure 2014 next week. Read more »