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Popular products in IBM Cloud
Bare metal servers
High-performance cloud servers configurable in hourly and monthly options — now including up to 20 TB of bandwidth
Object storage
Unstructured data storage designed for durability, resiliency and security
Kubernetes service
Orchestrate intelligent scheduling, self-healing, and horizontal scaling
IBM Cloudant®
A NoSQL JSON document store for heavy loads of concurrent reads and writes
Blockchain platform
Accelerate development and governance of a multi-institution network
Natural language understanding
Analyze text to extract metadata such as concepts, entities and sentiment
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Academic institutions
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