How IBM Continues to Rise in the Cloud as It Seeks to Boost Adoption
Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Chris Ciaccia.
As IBM pushes its clients toward cloud computing, the software and services provider announced new investments Monday in its hybrid cloud offerings to boost revenue in a fast-expanding part of its business. "Today, we are launching a new class of cloud innovations that extend open standards capabilities for the enterprise," said IBM SVP Robert LeBlanc in a statement. "Data location across an ever growing number of clouds is an increasing concern for customers and we are unveiling new portability and developer services to make this easier to manage."
By doing so, IBM’s customers will be able to move their software, platforms and information-technology systems to the hybrid cloud, which allows clients to manage some resources internally and others on IBM’s platform. The dual cloud platform is intended to make it easier to adopt and update a client’s IT needs…
If you still harbored any doubts that the web is now driving the future of IT, last week’s announcement that HP will offer disaggregated products for web-scale data centers via deals with Cumulus and Accton should be enough to convince you. The deal itself is hardly monumental. HP inked a pair of "partnerships that will produce a branded white box switch capable of running multiple network operating systems."
OpenStack vs CloudStack is not so much of a battle as it is a push for advanced cloud management. Let’s start here: these platforms were designed as cloud computing has become an integral part for many organizations. The big push was for logical cloud-layer management that has a lot of ways to control various workloads. With that, let’s dive into the latest and greatest from both of these guys.
A new report on cloud storage prepared for Google by a Hamilton-based risk advisor shows that businesses need to take a truly global look to completely secure data. And in an interview with the CBC, James Arlen, director of risk and advisory services for Leviathan Security Group, says the same principles of data security companies such as Google need, apply to your personal data, too.
Colder regions make great places for building data centers. Operators can leverage the colder air outside to cool those hot servers, without relying much on costly tools like air conditioners and the like. When we’re talking about thousands of servers all running in the same place, the savings are substantial. And so is the positive impact on the environment, thanks to a healthy decrease in energy requirements and emissions.
If you’re an enterprise software vendor today, there’s only one company to fear: Amazon. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger perhaps said it most honestly ("if a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever"), but the sentiment is widely shared — or it should be. After all, AWS (Amazon Web Services) plays by different rules, spoiling the comfortable margins and business models of yesterday.