With its new business solutions suite, the company shakes up its traditional enterprise IT business model even further and admits it is not doing so without risk.

IBM plans to offer Elastic Storage as stand-alone software as well as a cloud offering through the SoftLayer platform

Provider highlights international customers to demonstrate global reach

OnApp has steadily been building a force of cloud providers leveraging its cloud platform. OnApp is now available on IBM's SoftLayer infrastructure and is also available in the newly launched IBM Cloud marketplace.

IBM is launching a cloud marketplace, which will bring its steadily growing portfolio of services and third party offerings together for one-click cloud shopping. The marketplace provides extra incentive for those developing on BlueMix, giving...

IBM unveiled new Power Systems servers Wednesday, leveraging POWER8 processor technology and designed for a new era of big data and open innovation

VMware launches vCloud Hybrid service for disaster recovery, The Hartford selects IBM to build private cloud infrastructure, and Oracle adds database backup and storage cloud services to its portfolio of Platform and Infrastructure services.

To realize its cloud ambitions, IBM must find a way to connect its existing base of enterprise customers to the SoftLayer platform. A key ingredient in IBM's effort is Blue Mix, a Platform as a Service offering that Big Blue introduced last month...