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Amazon AWS vs IBM SoftLayer: Why IBM cannot dominate Amazon as a Cloud Computing Services Provider? Can IBM SoftLayer ever dominate Amazon AWS? Today, Amazon is the biggest Cloud Computing Services provider. Amazon AWS already has a number of large enterprises running production workloads on it, and the trend is accelerating. IBM is unquestionably a strong brand with deep customer relationships — it exerts a magnetism for its customers that competitors like HP and Dell don’t come anywhere near to matching.  Why IBM SoftLayer cannot dominate Amazon AWS? 1. Is IBM SoftLayer worthy? IBM's own cloud did not work, and now it has thrown out that strategy and is now pinning its hopes on SoftLayer, which was never a credible AWS competitor to begin with. IBM acquired SoftLayer last year and announced addition of more than 1,500 customers just after three months of its acquisition of SoftLayer.  It certainly helps immensely that SoftLayer is a more compelling solution than SCE, but cus...

Microsoft as Cloud Hosting and Storage Provider Microsoft is a good cloud hosting and storage provider today in the market and growing day by day. But Microsoft cloud has to go  too far to compete with the cloud king Amazon. Amazon cloud hosting and storage is many fold ahead of Microsoft cloud. Beside  Amazon, there are a lot of competitors of Microsoft cloud hosting like Rackspace, CenturyLink, SalesForce, Verizon, Joyent, Citrix,  Bluelock, VMware etc. Other big fishes in cloud computing market are Google, Apple, IBM and so on. If Microsoft's cloud  has to get rid of all these competitors, Microsoft has to excel in the cloud computing in all ways like cloud hosting and storage, cloud  pricing, availability etc. Microsoft claims 100,000 businesses are using its various online cloud computing services. Lets see what Microsoft is doing to go ahead of its cloud competitors like Rackspace, Salesforce, Google and Amazon. 1. Microsoft teamed up with Oracle   Re...