Cloud Demand Is Exploding
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Moreover,
the new IBM cloud can enable organizations,
their employees and partners, to get what they need, as they need it - from
advanced analytics and business applications to IT infrastructure like virtual
servers and storage or access to tools for testing software code - all deployed
securely across IBM's global network of
cloud data centers, the company said
The
IBM SmartCloud has two implementation
options: Enterprise and Enterprise
+. The Enterprise version is
available today and expands on IBM's
existing Development and Test Cloud. This enables customers to expand on
internal development and test efforts with reduction of application development
tasks from days to minutes via automation and rapid provisioning with over 30
percent reduction in costs versus traditional application environments.
The
Enterprise+ implementation will be made available later this year, Enterprise +
will complement and expand on the value of the Enterprise version, and offer
new capabilities to provide a core set of multi-tenant services to manage
virtual server, storage, network and security infrastructure components
including managed operational production services.
Meanwhile,
in the third quarter of 2011, Big Blue will offer IBM
SAP Managed Application Services on the IBM
SmartCloud. These new services automate the most common labor intensive tasks
associated with managing SAP environments.
The services catalog for SAP on the IBM
SmartCloud provides for the automated provisioning of SAP
environments and significantly reduces the cost and labor associated with SAP
cloning, refreshes and patching. SAP
services on the IBM SmartCloud provide
production service levels and optional 24 / 7 DBA and SAP
Basis support.
Benefits
from IBM's SAP
in the Cloud service, include:
- Install of
DB2/Oracle from 1 day to 12 minutes
- Maintain
database libraries from ??รณ day to 8 minutes
- Clone
database from 2-3 days to 20 minutes
- Install of
operating system from 1 day to 30 minutes
- Prepare
upgrade/provide SAP system from 2-3 days to
40 minutes
- Add
additional application server form 1 day to 10 minutes
-
SAP systems refresh from 1 - 4 days to 3
minutes
"We
selected the IBM SmartCloud to host our
production and non-production SAP
environments." said David Cummings, CIO at Univar, in a statement.
"We believe IBM is uniquely qualified
to provide us with a production cloud platform for hosting and cloud based
automations for managing application environments."
IBM
also is enabling customers to deploy their Lotus Domino applications to the IBM
SmartCloud with the Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive. LotusLive
provides integrated email, social business and third-party applications from
the cloud. The new server licensing model extends customer deployment options
for Domino applications from on-premises to cloud. With the immediate
availability of the Domino Utility Server for LotusLive, clients can now move
applications to the IBM SmartCloud -
Enterprise and take advantage of fixed, predictable pricing and flexible
deployment. IBM Global Technology
Services will also work with clients on planning and assessments.
The
demand for cloud computing is exploding, analysts say. According to IDC, $17
billion was spent on cloud-related technologies, hardware and software in 2009
and IDC expects that spending will grow to $45 billion by 2013.
