Cloud Computing:Rethink IT. Reinvent business.

Everyone is talking about Cloud Computing, and the term has got overloaded and confusing. Understand why Cloud Computing is important to your organization and explore solutions from IBM that enable your organization to adopt the Cloud to have maximum impact.

Your IT department is challenged to use IT as it was always intended – to give your organization an edge over your competition, to keep your organization nimble, and to unleash the power of information in your organization, while keeping it safe - all this while remaining within predictable budgets. Cloud computing implemented correctly enables you to address these challenges.

The journey to the cloud requires three stages: Virtualization, Standardization and Automation.

Virtualization dissolves the boundaries between the silos of infrastructure in your organization, and lays the foundation for flexible delivery and reusability. Virtualization drives up utilization, delivers economies of scale and lowers capital expenses. IBM’s solutions deliver higher levels of virtualization and utilization than competition, with increased reliability and scalability.

Standardization defines the building blocks of IT that are deployed across a cloud infrastructure and not only simplifies IT, but enables reusability, flexibility and easier access. Standardizing IT is the foundation of service management within your organization, enabling higher qualities of service.

Automation optimizes utilization, improves compliance, and enhances security while providing faster cycle times that translate into lower operating expenses and an enhanced end user experience. Automation enables the agility that your organization needs to maintain leadership in your industry.

IBM servers, storage and software offerings enable your organization to adopt the cloud based on the needs of your business at any of these stages, and to continue to enhance the capabilities of the cloud in line with the requirements in your organization in future.

Interoperability is a key aspect of enabling a true cloud infrastructure. Moving to the cloud does not require you to “rip and replace” your existing infrastructure as some other providers require. Built on a comprehensive reference architecture, IBM delivers solutions that use open standards and enable an extensible, evolutionary cloud ecosystem built from heterogeneous hardware across suppliers.

Use IBM offerings to create a custom-built cloud across intel-based, power-based and mainframe platforms. The offerings are designed to enable a true, superior cloud when implemented with the software offerings from IBM (PowerVM, Systems Director and VMControl). All this, while welcoming your existing heterogeneous infrastructure into the cloud pool. For quickest time to market, use integrated cloud appliances from IBM on system x and system p.

Throughout its history, IBM has invented the technologies that enable cloud computing and has pioneered the use of IT in making businesses successful.

Don’t just build a cloud – build a better cloud suited to your needs. With IBM.

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