Cloud and IT Optimization

Enhance IT agility. Reduce cost and risk. Drive innovation.

Cloud Service Delivery and Management Whitepaper (3.7MB)

Balancing act

Cloud computing and IT optimization can help you improve business outcomes by enhancing your IT agility – tuning and managing your IT infrastructure to be more responsive to changing business conditions. The key is finding ways to balance the key IT trade-offs of cost and risk reduction and the need to free resources to help drive innovation.

IBM Software helps you achieve this level of optimization by improving visibility, control and automation across your cloud and service delivery environments. Solutions include data protection, storage infrastructure management, IT service management, change and configuration management, application management, IT monitoring and service availability, performance management and cloud and virtualization management.

  • Understand, classify, protect and retain data according to its purpose and value.
  • Automate and intelligently manage cloud and virtualized environments, and do it all securely.
  • Minimize service disruptions and reduce costs through automated service request handling, workload scheduling, change management and asset lifecycle management.
  • Transform your operations to drive innovation and go beyond servicing the IT infrastructure.

Real results

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. Dutch Cloud (US), used IBM SmartCloud provisioning software to simplify its cloud infrastructure and reduced the time to provision 200 virtual machines by over 90 percent and decreased administrative workload by 70 percent.

ZON Multimedia (US) is the leader of the pay TV market in Portugal. It achieved a 98 percent reduction in weekly network events for improved customer service with an Integrated Service Management solution from IBM.

European insurer Ceska Pojistovna (US) used centralized monitoring to gain greater visibility and reduced maintenance costs by US$200,000.

Related capabilities

Enhance IT agility and optimize the trade-offs of cost, risk and innovation in the delivery and management of services.

IBM SmartCloud Foundation is a set of technologies for building and managing virtualized infrastructures and private and hybrid clouds. Together these technologies can help build a fully functional cloud management system that aids business transformation and new service delivery. Individually, these technologies can help nearly any cloud project make quick and incremental progress towards a longer term cloud strategy.

Featured Capabilities

IT service management

Service and IT asset management and process automation across the organization.

Monitoring and performance management

Management and monitoring of application, middleware, server, and network environments for dynamic IT infrastructures.

Provisioning and orchestration

Deployment and orchestration of virtual and cloud environments across the service delivery lifecycle.

Scheduling and systems automation

Transform and automate the provisioning of dynamic workloads using cloud services.

Storage management backup and recovery

Automate backup and restore, centralize storage management and ensure efficient movement and retention of data.

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Cloud Computing Use Cases, CSCC white paper (PDF, 528KB)

From Virtualization to Cloud, A Worthwhile Journey, Forrester Research (706KB)

Cloud Computing on a Smarter Planet white paper (655KB)

Private Cloud for Dummies eBook

Move beyond monitoring to holistic management of application performance solution brief (828KB)

IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Management deliver savings and position Česká pojišťovna for Future Growth case study (203KB)

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IBM SmartCloud Foundation technologies enable organizations to easily build and rapidly scale private and hybrid clouds with unparalleled time to market, integration and management. Listen to Scott Hebner, IBM Vice President of Marketing, Cloud & Business Infrastructure Management describe why organizations are moving to the cloud and how IBM SmartCloud Foundation technology powers cloud adoption.

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