IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years

IBM has killed its Cloud for Education – a service it launched just two years ago and touted as "infrastructure and services for academic and research lab compute needs." IBM Cloud for Education offered a handful of research-centric VM types pre-configured with apps like its own SPSS statistical software. Big Blue launched …

[Korev]

So does it run Rocky Linux then?

[Anonymous Coward]

Countdown

Countdown to shutdown the rest of ibm cloud... always the same history there.

[Eclectic Man]

Re: Countdown

Time to dust off RFC2549 perhaps?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549#:~:text=Quality%20of%20Service-,RFC%202549,Document

"Abstract

This memo amends RFC 1149, "A Standard for the Transmission of IP

Datagrams on Avian Carriers", with Quality of Service information.

This is an experimental, not recommended standard."

[Terry 6]

Who can we trust?

I suspect the answer is "nobody"

Relying on anything touted in the tech world seems to have a significant risk that as soon as people start to build their work around it the rug will get pulled from under them.

Edit - and possibly their careers if they've thrown their lot in with one of these new-fangled ideas.

[druck]

Re: Who can we trust?

I'm sure they'll be a call from sales soon, classic bait and switch.

[Dan 55]

"a secular trend across IT is for more workloads to go cloudy"

Apart from those who are already in the cloud, where "cloud exit" is a thing.

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

"Reliability was also not a strong point for the Big Blue cloud"

I read that as "reality was also not a strong point for Big Blue". Which also feels accurate, sometimes.