{"id":39543,"date":"2023-07-05T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=39543"},"modified":"2023-07-07T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T13:04:33","slug":"ibm-cloud-for-education-abandoned-after-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/ibm-cloud-for-education-abandoned-after-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Cloud for Education abandoned after two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">IBM has deprecated its Cloud for Education service, which was launched just two years ago. The service offered a handful of research-centric VM types pre-configured with apps like IBM&#8217;s SPSS statistical software.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">IBM launched the service in April 2021, when it stated that it was essential to make computing lab resources accessible off-campus as educational institutions transitioned to remote learning due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">However, with educational institutions now operating from their physical campuses, IBM has decided to deprecate the service. In a FAQ, IBM stated that it continues to evaluate its service offerings and that new catalog services such as VPC, Code Engine, and third-party services from Dizzion and Citrix can now provide the capabilities required by the academic community.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">The service will continue to operate as usual until November 30, 2023. Users have been urged to have a chat with IBM about what they do next, and IBM has promised to be in touch to help with data and workload migration.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The deprecation of IBM Cloud for Education comes a week after Red Hat announced a deal with communications giant Nokia to take over its cloud business.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/07\/04\/ibm_deprecates_education_cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheRegister<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has deprecated its Cloud for Education service, which was launched just two years ago. The service offered a handful of research-centric VM types pre-configured with apps like IBM&#8217;s SPSS statistical software. IBM launched the service in April 2021, when it stated that it was essential to make computing lab resources accessible off-campus as educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-39543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-ibm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39545,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39543\/revisions\/39545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}