back to article IBM Cloud’s elasticity stretches and stretches (Big Blue's credibility?)

IBM’s cloud is having a bad day. An incident that kicked off at 19:48 UTC on Thursday, July 5th, saw “long provisioning times [for virtual servers] … observed through monitoring systems,” leading to a warning to the effect that “At this time, customers may experience longer than normal times for provisioning new services.” …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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    So IBM is having trouble getting its cloud running properly ?

    Maybe it should have not laid off so many people who actually did the work, all in the name of profits.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    right, so IBM's last "reason" to justify their cloud has been blown out the water.

    No longer is it "quick" to spin up or spin down instances to control your costs.

    What a surprise...

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Niche

    The way IBM Cloud is going, it might fall off "Niche" in the next Gartner MQ

    1. old_iron

      Re: Niche

      FJ just pulled investment to theirs

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