IBM has launched a range of software tools and hardware for enterprises looking to move to hybrid cloud environments.
The company’s new portfolio includes power system servers, software, and storage solutions, plus a licensing scheme to make moving to a hybrid cloud more flexible for customers.
IBM’s ecosystem was presented at IBM’s Edge conference in Las Vegas, where the company said it is responding to demand from companies who wish to be able to move workloads to and from the cloud without any lag.
Mobile, big data and social computing are driving these ‘systems of engagement’, it claimed.
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“Hybrid cloud computing requires new levels of openness, dynamic data management, integration, automation and scalable performance in server, storage and software technologies,” said Don Boulia, VP of cloud services at Big Blue.
“IBM brings all of these technologies together from on-premises datacentres and inside public and private clouds to more efficiently manage traditional computing with new mobile, big data and social computing workloads.”
In terms of hardware, IBM announced the Power System E850, the PurePower System E880 and XIV GEN 3 storage system.
The first is a four-socket Power8 server designed for use by cloud service providers and enterprise customers.
It supports up to 4TB of memory for running in-memory databases with the ability to be upgraded on demand without taking the whole server offline. IBM said it has up to 70 per cent guaranteed utilisation.
The E880 integrates 192 cores for speedy deployment of big data, social, mobile and analytics workloads. It also includes automated management and configuration services, like the rest of IBM’s Pure systems.
IBM’s XIV GEN 3 storage system merges real-time compression, enabling enterprises to store between 50 and 80 per cent more data and an analytics-run storage management service that enables intelligent capacity planning.
In terms of software, IBM announced a free trial of Rocket Software’s mainframe data access service for its Bluemix developer cloud customers that will allow them to access data stored on IBM z Systems mainframes to build apps.
Date: May 12, 2015