Microsoft and IBM Keep the Pressure on Amazon’s Cloud

Until further notice, Amazon Web Services is the reigning public IaaS cloud leader. But deep-pocketed companies Microsoft and IBM are keeping the pressure on AWS with a flurry of announcements beefing up their clouds to close out the year.
IBM, which earlier this year committed to investing $1.2 billion in its cloud platform, is accelerating its roll-out of new data centers across the globe. Initially the company said it planned to open 40 cloud sites, but this week it announced that 48 are