IBM turns up heat in cloud pricing war

The last couple of months have been relatively quiet for the major cloud players, though it looks like the lurking pricing war is just beginning to heat up.
Speaking at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas, the team has announced launched a horde of new offerings, as well as a number of pricing options which certainly puts IBM Softlayer in the competitive bracket. One of the loudest announcements here was the introduction of a cold storage service, which Big Blue claims is cheaper, and quicker than riv