Fortifying its SoftLayer cloud services for enterprise use, IBM has started using Intel’s chip-based Trusted Execution Technology to help organizations in highly regulated industries meet their auditing and security compliance requirements.

On Monday, IBM started offering bare-metal cloud servers — servers with no software installed — with Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) monitoring and security tools.

TXT can offer a “chain-of-trust” from the SoftLayer servers back to an organization’s internal auditing and compliance monitoring processes, said Marc Jones, IBM SoftLayer chief technology officer.

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