Month of use of the IBM cloud server: free opportunity to get acquainted with the Softlayer platform

Not so long ago, IBM invested more than a billion dollars in the development of the IBM Cloud cloud platform, including hosting Softlayer. IBM Cloud is a powerful enough complex of cloud technologies and services, allowing to solve a wide range of tasks for customers of the company.

Softlayer is a hosting that provides real and virtual servers for high-load sites and applications. In this case, Softlayer allows you to build your server yourself, using the appropriate designer. The amount of RAM, the number of processor cores, the amount of internal memory - all of this is set independently.
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Now you can try out the cloud version of Softlayer service for free , and not a couple of days, but a whole month.

For familiarization with the service, the initial configuration of the server is issued:

CPU: 1 x 2.0 GHz Core
RAM: 1 GB
Storage: 25 GB (LOCAL)
Public Bandwidth: 5000 GB Bandwidth
Primary IP Addresses: 1 IP Address
Uplink Port Speeds: 100 Mbps Public & Private Network Uplinks

When configuring an order, you can select a suitable data center (several regions of the United States, Western Europe, Central and Southeast Asia), as well as one of several available operating systems for your server.

When ordering a trial server, you need to indicate a valid credit card, and if you do not turn off the service, but continue to use it after a month, the funds will begin to be debited from the credit card.

As mentioned above, you can order and real, and not just a virtualized server.



You can do it here , and IBM now offers a discount of $ 20 on this service (for dedicated Xpress servers based on Intel Xeon processors). In addition, the opportunity to increase resources is provided.

You can learn more about the IBM Cloud / Softlayer features here from this video:



For reference:
In January 2014, IBM announced plans to invest more than $ 1.2 billion in cloud computing at the global level. As a result, IBM's cloud services provided in 40 data centers located in 15 countries on 5 continents, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, will be available to customers all over the world.

In addition, in the future, IBM plans to expand the list of offers using Power Systems' optimized performance for processing and analyzing data.

The preliminary list of offers includes:

• Watson Solutions — Watson Discovery Advisor, Watson Engagement Advisor, and Watson Development Cloud — a platform provided as a service that includes tools, development kits, an API, and helps you develop and deploy cognitive applications.

• Software as a service — a wide range of data services optimized for use on Power Systems servers, including IBM DB2 BLU and IBM Cognos analytical solutions.

• Infrastructure as a service - Power Systems servers will be provided to customers as an “on demand” infrastructure platform.