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We all know cloud is evolving fast, but IBM's just given us the downside of that speed: a service it switched on in February 2015 will be switched off in August 2017. That service is the first iteration of Bluemix's Swift-based Object Storage for Spark as a Service users. IBM's now on version 3 of the service and that's where …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Definately worth the move

    to AWS or Google that is.

    If you have to migrate may as well migrate to a more reasonable provider.

    I suppose that having distributed the pink slip/P.45 to any developer with more than 6 months experience they don't have the capability to do a seamless upgrade.

    Ginny -- you are not in Soviet Trumpistan yet -- customers can choose who the give the money too.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Agree

    The cloud indeed allows you to fail quickly...

    Given the imposed timeframe migration, there may not be many customers using it anyway.

    Bluemix/Softlayer is a very expensive offering anyway.

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      Re: Agree

      Yeah, I think that these non internet companies, IBM, Oracle, even Microsoft, are going to have a difficult time competing with AWS and Google in IaaS. It is a price driven game, as it is difficult to say this object storage is way different than the next object storage. Amazon and especially Google are accustomed to generating huge amounts of compute and storage at incredibly low price points and are subsidized to some extent by the investments they made in scaling infrastructure for their internal services, again especially Google. Not sure legacy providers want to play a game where it takes $50b to be a serious competitor and the prices fall every few months.

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  3. Locky
    Mushroom

    "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

    Unless it was to use their mushroom cloud

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Continual decline

    Do the IBM execs realise this or are they too busy milking it whilst they can?

    It use to innovate, now it sort of.. does nothing?

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      Re: Continual decline

      How many years ago did IBM last innovate? 20 with OS/2?

      Most of their "innovation" in recent years is acquisition and marketing...

      Most of their product suites get a superficial re-brand and version bump, but the functionality remains the same unless there is a major competitor that can't be acquired and so they have to try and match the features...

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    "That's a situation we cannot recall ever having faced users of on-premises equipment."

    Indeed, no, because totally furious users would come to you physically, one way or another, and you'd be in serious trouble.

    Cloud can range from totally brilliant down to rightly utterly abusive.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Price

    As some commentards have pointed up, this is imlosing costs on customers who are already paying way too much.

    On top of that, the services are mediocre at best. I would rather use linode/digital ocean, they provide little flexibility but their pricing is way way better.

    In some cases, you obviously dont get way you pay for...

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  7. truber

    Good Bye IBM

    IBM: Hey Watson, what's the weather?

    Watson: Not a single cloud in your future

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