Ever since IBM unveiled Cloud Pak for Data as a cloud-native integrated set of analytics and AI platform, we’ve been wondering when IBM would take the next step and announce a full-blown managed cloud service. It’s now starting to happen as IBM is rolling out IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service.
Roll back the tape to last spring when we reviewed IBM Cloud Satellite; we noted that IBM’s primary cloud message has been about multi-cloud, or at least cloud-agnostic.