PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD With IBM's new SmartCloud solution, businesses that are running out of computing power, need more storage capacity, and want to ensure they are meeting security and regulatory mandates have a new cloud option.
IBM SmartCloud is offered in two flavors: Enterprise, sold today, and Enterprise +, slated to become available later this year. eWEEK reports that the Enterprise solution allows customers to expand upon internal development and test efforts, enabling them to slash application development tasks to minutes instead of days, via the solution's automation and rapid provisioning. In addition, SmartCloud Enterprise delivers cost reductions of more than 30 percent compared with traditional application developments, and has a 99.5 percent uptime guarantee, IBM said.
The menu includes five main primary options: IT platforms, management support/deployment, security, availability/performance and payment/billing. Organizations can select any combination of software and services they want, as long as it's an IBM product that runs on WebSphere—the foundation of SmartCloud.
When it becomes available, Enterprise +will complement and expand on the value of Enterprise, offering 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, the developer said. IBM will provide an uptime of 99.9 percent on Enterprise +.
To encourage corporations to adopt its cloud solutions, IBM provides an online monthly cost estimator. By punching in data about software images, virtual machine instances, persistent storage, Internet data transfer, network access options and support, businesses can see an estimate of their total monthly fee.
Early adopters of the service such as scientific systems integrator Illuminata, health care provider Kaiser Permanente, and insurance and financial services specialist ING all needed more computing power and storage capabilities than their on-site systems could provide, according to an article in eWEEK. All three organizations also required strict security controls to meet industry mandates. After all, both Illuminata and Kaiser Permanente are in the health care sector, while ING is a financial services organization.
"Some of the main areas of concern for us are around the regulatory and security spaces, and getting our problems solved without compromising our business. We've felt that IBM's experience here as compared to the competition has given us confidence and an on-ramp to the cloud that we might not have been able to enjoy as quickly," said Scott Skellenger, director of Global Information Services at Illuminata.
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