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IBM floats into private cloud development


By David Worthington


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June 16, 2009 —  IBM wants to be your developers' onramp to the cloud. Big Blue is introducing cloud service offerings for software development and testing, as well as desktop virtualization. It will build out private cloud infrastructures for customers that choose on-premises solutions.

Today the company announced Smart Business Services, a new service-based consumption model for IBM platforms that permits applications and tools to reside in both public and private clouds behind the firewall.

IBM's cloud offerings include a stack of pre-integrated tools, including Eclipse IDE, IBM DB2, Rational and WebSphere, as well as a configuration utility for managing services, said Jim Comfort, vice president of enterprise initiatives in cloud computing at IBM.

The company is leveraging its worldwide data centers to provide the public option. IBM's public cloud is primarily Linux based, and it leverages VMware vCenter Server to manage images, he said.

Customers can participate at several tiers: The cloud is exposed as infrastructure as a service, at the platform level, and at the software level. "We will add features to the public cloud over time to differentiate for the enterprise," Comfort said.

When asked about interoperability with other cloud providers, he stated that IBM was committed to openness, but he declined to discuss anything specific.

"This offering does not address all of those issues. We are trying to develop tools for service managers that have the ability to develop packages to [deploy in] to other clouds," he added.

Customers can opt to build their own private cloud out of IBM software components, or Big Blue can build the infrastructure for them. A product called IBM CloudBurst includes pre-integrated hardware, software and service offerings.

IBM will meter customers' usage of its public cloud, then bill them accordingly. Customers will receive service level agreements for private clouds that are built and managed by IBM, said Comfort.

CloudBurst will be available to customers on Friday, and a version of IBM's public cloud offering will be offered as a beta, he said. Private cloud components for development, testing and desktop virtualization are available now.




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