 IBM PULSE 2014David Slovensky lists of cloud facts from day 1 of the IBM PULSE show:
IBM processes over 5.5 million transactions a day through its public cloud
In deep analytical workloads SoftLayer is 2X faster with 19% lower cost than AWS IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents Since 2007 IBM has invested more than $7 billion dollars and 15 acquisitions to improve their cloud portfolio Over 130 million peak concurrent gamers play every night on SoftLayer bare metal servers every night worldwide In IBM PULSE 2013 236,252 megabytes of data was transmitted By end of 2015 IBM will deliver cloud services from 40 data centers we in 15 countries in five continents IBM cloud supports 24 of the top 25 Fortune 500 companies
IBM has committed an additional $1.2 billion in 2014 to expand global cloud footprint
Since 2007, IBM has invested more than $7 billion in 16 acquisitions to accelerate its cloud initiatives and build a high value cloud portfolio IBM expects to achieve $7 billion in annual cloud revenue by 2015 IBM Cloud on IBM Power Systems = Tieto achieving 80% server utilization vs 20% for typical standalone systems & 75% reduction in floor space IBM Cloud on IBM Power Systems = IT Informatik seeing 50% reduction in operational expenses & 80% less time to deploy new customer environments IBM Cloud on IBM Power Systems = PowerLinux inboard for up to 43% less down time IBM Cloud on IBM Power Systems = Reduction of the number of HP legacy servers by more than 70% IBM Cloud Storage = Coca Cola bottling company consolidated saw a 40% reduction in storage latency and accelerated batch processing 4X IBM Cloud Storage = Anadolubank accelerating server provisioning 94% & shrunk development and testing cycles to win new business 72% of business leaders say cloud will be extremely important in your future. |