IBM has unveiled “Blue Cloud,” a series of computing offerings that will bring ready-to-use cloud computing to corporate data centers.
Cloud computing links large pools of systems to provide IT services. It allows corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet, enabling computing across a globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than on local machines or remote server farms. Exponential growth in connected devices, real-time data streams, and the adoption of service oriented architectures and Web 2.0 applications is driving the move toward cloud computing.
“Blue Cloud will help our customers quickly establish a cloud computing environment to test and prototype Web 2.0 applications within their enterprise environment,” said Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, Development and Manufacturing for IBM Systems & Technology Group. “Over time, this approach could help IT managers dramatically reduce the complexities and costs of managing scale-out infrastructures whose demands fluctuate.”
Blue Cloud will be based on open standards and open source software supported by IBM software, systems technology and services. The first Blue Cloud offerings are expected to be available in the spring of 2008.
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IBM Introduces Ready-to-Use Cloud Computing (press release)