Softly-as-a-service: IBM whispers plan for security SaaS based on a Cloud Pak

Softly-as-a-service: IBM whispers plan for security SaaS based on a Cloud Pak

IBM has quietly announced a plan to turn one of its security software bundles into a software-as-a-service.


Big Blue regularly sends out “announcement letters” that mostly offer minutiae about the IT giant's products. This week’s batch includes the moderately interesting news that IBM is withdrawing some of its Docker support services, though the other items are mostly minor updates, such as the one titled “IBM SANnav available in The People's Republic of China.”


In other words, mostly unexciting stuff that needs to be on the record.


However, about two-thirds of the way down this week’s list is a softly service whispers security based cloud