IBM unveils local enterprise cloud service
October 26, 2012
Grazed from CIO. Author: Byron Connolly.
IBM has launched a new local enterprise cloud computing service – hosted at its data centre in Baulkham Hills in Sydney – suitable for organisations wanting to deploy hybrid cloud models. The pay-by-the-month service – SmartCloud Enterprise+ – is being provided out of Big Blue’s seventh global cloud centre, which is also the first in the Asia Pacific region.
It builds on the existing “Amazon-like” public SmartCloud Enterprise service, which has about 47 customers in Australia. Around half of these customers are software vendors and the remainder are organisations that need computing power quickly. IBM hasn’t announced any customers yet for SmartCloud Enterprise+…
IBM is publishing the application programming interfaces (APIs) that will aid local enterprises and government departments that want to easily build a hybrid cloud model where some services are pushed to the cloud and some retained onsite…
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