IBM Cloud

 IBM Cloud


IBM has been a leader in the field of artificial intelligence since the 1950s. Its efforts in recent years are around IBM Watson, including an a AI-based cognitive service, AI software as a service, and scale-out systems designed for delivering cloud-based analytics and AI services. It has been acquisitive, purchasing a number of AI startups over several years. It benefits from having a strong cloud platform.

IBM Cloud Services

Because IBM seems to be focusing more attention on Bluemix than SoftLayer, this list will cover its Bluemix offerings rather than those available through SoftLayer. The company divides its Bluemix Services into twelve categories:

 

Compute Infrastructure — includes its bare metal servers (single-tenant servers that are highly customizable), virtual servers, GPU computing, POWER servers (based on IBM's POWER architecture) and server software

Compute Services — includes OpenWhisk serverless computing, containers and Cloud Foundry runtimes

Storage — includes object, block and file storage, as well as server-backup capabilities

Network — includes load balancing, Direct Link private secure connections, network appliances, content delivery network and domain services

Mobile — includes IBM's Swift tools for creating iOS apps, its MobileFirst Starter package for getting a mobile app up and running, and its Mobile Foundation app back-end services

Watson — includes IBM's artificial intelligence and machine learning services, which it calls "cognitive computing," such as Discovery search and content analytics, Conversation natural language services and speech-to-text

Data and analytics — includes data services, analytics services, big data hosting, Cloudera hosting, MongoDB hosting and Riak hosting

Internet of Things — includes IBM's IoT platform and its IoT starter packages

Security — includes tools for securing cloud environments, such as a firewall, hardware security modules (physical devices with key management capabilities), Intel Trusted Execution Technology, security software and SSL certificates

Development and IT Operations (DevOps) — includes the Eclipse IDE, continuous delivery tools and availability monitoring

Application services — includes Blockchain, Message hub and business rules, among others

Integration — includes tools for building virtual bridges for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments, such as API Connect and Secure Gateway.


Popular Features of IBM Cloud Services


Service

Features

Bare metal Servers

• Highly customizable and can be built to spek
• Excellent performance
• Available within 20 minutes to 4 hours
• Single-tenant servers that are not shared with any other organizations
• Ideal for I/O-intensive workloads

Virtual Servers

• Both public and private nodes available
• Local and SAN storage options available
• Fast performance
• Hybrid cloud capabilities
Global data centers

GPU servers

• Designed for HPC, deep learning and AI use cases
• Pay for GPU capabilities only when in use
• Choice of NVIDIA Tesla or NVIDIA GRID GPUs

Object Storage

• Free tier
• Slmple pricing based on data access
• Geographically dispersed data centers for resiliency
• Integrated security
• Flex storage option for automatic tiering

Watson Discovery

• Free tier with a 30 day trial
• Quickly build a cognitive search and

Cloudera Hosting

content analytics engine
• Includes pre·enriched datasets like the Discovery News collection
• SDKs for Node.js, Java, Python, iOS and Unity

• Supports Cloudera Hadoop
• Runs on bare metal servers
• Customization capabilities available
• Can be deployed in a few hours






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Deep Vision-Facial Recognition Software

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Trends in 2020