IBM this week ramped up its Cloud Computing push with a drive into services that help organisation develop and test their own private Clouds.
IBM is offering three cloud development and test services. The first is a beta service that allows firms to run and test software on an IBM cloud. The second, IBM Smart Business Test Cloud, is a private cloud built by IBM inside a company's firewall. Finally, IBM CloudBurst is a set of integrated hardware, storage, virtualisation and networking products with a built-in service management system.
IBM is also offering to host virtual desktops in a business's data centre in a private cloud or on its own cloud. The company said this service significantly reduces power consumption, simplifies management and can cut lower-end support costs by up to 40%, compared with conventional desktop systems.
“IBM couldn’t put it better when it states that the cloud can turn ‘complex business processes into simple services,” commented Joe Brown, General Manager, EMEA, RightNow. “It's good to see that IBM has finally realised the benefits of Cloud Computing with its latest announcement of new Cloud products and services for the enterprise.
“The Cloud is merely the logical evolution of what has been happening with information technology since its inception. With the cloud there has been a shift from built by me to built by others. It’s just a means of continuing technological progression by pushing storage, system management, encoding, load balancing, software deployment, hardware administration, and every other conceivable piece of the IT world, into the cloud for other organisations to more effectively and efficiently operate.”
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