IBM Introduces New Servers, Software and Solutions Designed for Cloud Computing

IBM now provides flexible software licensing for speedy adoption of hybrid cloud environment by customers

Now Enterprises are increasingly using hybrid cloud environments to incorporate existing technology investments combined with workloads in the cloud as now big data, social computing and mobile makes its more important for the organizations to adopt hybrid cloud computing.

IBM news unveiled new storage and mainframe software, servers, and solutions designed for cloud computing in an attempt to get more customers create hybrid cloud environment. Moving big data and computing workloads can be hassle for organizations as it exists in various data centers and private clouds.

IBM z Systems, IBM Middleware, IBM Power Systems, IBM Spectrum Storage, OpenStack and IBM SoftLayer software combined together can provide assistance to clients in navigating and adopting these new environments while also accessing new insight on important business data.

Accroding to IBM latest news, these new services and products include:

• IBM Power System E850- this is the industry’s first product that consists of 4-socket system and provides flexible capacity and guarantees 70% utilization. This solution is aimed at medium or large organizations, helping them to efficiently and securely install multi-tenancy workloads, while also letting enterprises to have a speedy access to large databases.
• IBM Power System E880- With the latest improvements to the E880 that allows it to scale to an extraordinary 192 cores. IBM test results show that huge business data workloads such as IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration works at optimum capacity.  This means that cloud deployments will be most efficient at this level, this capability is not found on any commodity hardware.
• IBM PurePower System- This product is known as the most secure infrastructure for cloud. It delivers insights securely in the cloud   and has the capability to quickly adapt to the changing requirements and also offers speedy application.
• IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights- With investments of $1 billion in IBM Spectrum Storage, this latest software offers data management as a cloud service to work on storage infrastructures. It also helps organizations to view capacity consumption at different levels. Storage insights help companies in storage management and to easily utilize the capacity.

• IBM XIV GEN 3-  This latest system that dramatically cuts down the entire cost of ownership with the help of IBM Real-time Compression.  The compression technology has the capability to store 50 to 80% more data without any great impact on application.
• Big storage Technology- This technology lets the enterprises to store huge data on new cloud archive and retrieve it back on whenever they want it, also at very little cost.  
• Rocket’s Mainframe Data Access Service on Bluemix : This provide enterprises with  easy and smooth connection to IBM Z system mainframe data  to work on new mobile and cloud apps through Bluemix. This service will initiate as a trial at no charge and is expected to start in June.

Around 30,000 clients have benefitted from the IBM cloud around the world. Many of these software’s are now available at different prices.