Reselling mutant cloud parts from IBM? There’s now an app for that
October 15, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Chris Mellor.
IBM is pitching new software and server gear for use in public, private and public-private hybrid cloud computing environments. The tech titan has announced PureSystem updates plus stuff about Power, System x and technical computing.
Big Blue thinks mutant clouds will pick up in popularity; it quotes Gartner as saying that "hybrid cloud computing is at the same place today that private cloud was three years ago; actual deployments are low, aspirations are high, and nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017."…
PureSystems
IBM’s PureSystems are converged offerings using the Flex System chassis, Flex Power and x86 server nodes plus switches and integrated storage, all stacked in racks, to make PureFlex infrastructure clouds, PureApplications software servers, and PureData analytics appliances. Big Blue says it has shipped more than 6,000 PureSystems…
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