Impacts of the IBM-SoftLayer deal on the cloud industry

June 05, 2013: 02:55 AM ET

(gigaom.com) -- On June 4 IBM acquired cloud computing infrastructure provider SoftLayer. This report analyzes the deal and discusses how the greater IT ecosystem will be affected and the benefits and challenges IBM now faces.

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