IBM unveiled two new cloud computing offering for Enterprises last week. The new service is called IBM Smart Business that provides hosted tools and services for two tasks: virtual desktop management, and application development and testing. The new services are available on cloud infrastructures which was developed by IBM behind a customer’s firewall. Additionally, IBM has also released CloudBurst appliances to facilitate development and testing task.
As per the report of Redmonk Analyst, dedicated development and testing servers are associated with huge amount of expenses for enterprises. The new cloud services from IBM is going to cut down the cost significantly.
“As far as the enterprise is concerned, cloud [computing] is the new VMware, and IBM wants a fat slice this time,” said RedMonk analyst James Governor, via e-mail.
Filed under
Enterprise Software | Tags:
Cloud Computing,
Development,
Firewall,
Testing | Comment Below
Related?
AT & T Goes for Cloud ComputingAugust 5th, 2008 Cloud Computing has become a buzzword in the tech industry due to marketing and service offerings from big players like Google, IBM and Amazon. AT & T announced that they are entering into Cloud Computing by offering the service, AT&T Synaptic Hosting.
Netmagic offers cloud computing servicesApril 14th, 2009 BANGALORE - Leading managed IT service provider Netmagic Solutions Tuesday launched cloud computing services for enterprises to save on capital, space and power. Cloud computing, a new generation of computing that utilises distant servers for data storage and management, allows devices to use chips that consume less energy than standard computers.
Cittio Released Open Source Monitoring Tool Zeppelin for Cloud ComputingMarch 16th, 2009 Zeppelin is a Cittio project that enhances cloud Computing capabilities. The software provides detailed asset, performance, auditing, benchmarking and usage metering information for cloud infrastructure. It will provide the reporting, analysis and operations support for both internal and remote cloud infrastructures.
Oracle Unveiled Product and Services for Cloud ComputingSeptember 23rd, 2008 Cloud computing is a type of computing where IT related functionalities are provided as Service and user can access to the services through internet without any knowledge or expertise about the technology. In order to reap the benifit of Cloud Computing, Oracle today announced at Oracle Open World, San Frascisco that customers can use Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager to create cloud computing environment. The product will be available first time for Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud.
IBM to Invest $360 million for Cloud ComputingAugust 1st, 2008 IBM is building newest cloud computing center at Research Triangular
facility at North Carolina. The new center is going to provide infrastructure and services for customers.
Ten Key Reasons for Enterprise to Choose Cloud ComputingDecember 14th, 2008 Cloud computing isn’t about doing anything new, instead it’s about applications that run in the web rather than your desktop. Some technology experts define CLOUD: Common, Location-independent, Online Utility provisioned on-Demand.
IBM Partners with Amazon Web Service to Provide Amazon Cloud Computing Application to its CustomersFebruary 13th, 2009 IBM made different types of announcement in terms of Cloud Computing recently. The most interesting one is the partnership with Amazon Web Service.
Top 5 Cloud Computing Platforms and InfrastructuresJanuary 4th, 2009 Cloud Computing is one of the hottest topic these days. Especially with the economic downturn, enterprises are looking for opportunity to reduce their spending.
