You can’t turn around without seeing something cloud-related from IBM these days. IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Plus, IBM SmartCloud Provisioning…the list goes on and on. But what you might not know is that some of the technologies in these products got their start in IBM’s biggest internal cloud environment. The Research Compute Cloud (or RC2 as it’s known to us) has been through several generations since its start nearly four years ago.
Conceived at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, it’s proven itself a valuable incubator for cloud technologies. RC2 has experienced phenomenal growth since it’s start. With nearly 70,000 VMs provisioned, RC2 has experienced more rapid growth and usage than even our wildest expectations.
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