Cloud Computing and Storage

Cloud computing has the potential to make an enormous impact to your business by:

• Reducing IT labor cost by 50% in configuration, operations, management and monitoring
• Improving capital utilization by 75%, significantly reducing license costs
• Reducing provisioning cycle times from weeks to minutes
• Improving quality, eliminating 30% of software defects
• Reducing end user IT support costs by up to 40%

Storage services are among the easiest to adapt to the cloud computing model. IT storage teams commonly provide storage “as a service” to other departments, so Best Practices and service level agreements have become standardized over the years.

IBM offers an expanding menu of cloud storage services, available on a pay-per-use basis, delivered from state-of-the-art IBM data centers. IBM also helps clients implement public, private, and hybrid cloud storage services, with expert consulting and workload optimized systems.

“IBM’s strategy is all about making cloud computing safe for enterprise customers. - Frank Gens, chief analyst for IDC, June 15, 2009”.

• What's new
  Storage Announcements for Cloud Computing, October 6, 2009
• What we offer
  IBM offers three types of cloud solutions, for storage and other services: Smart Business on the IBM Cloud, Smart Business Cloud services, and Smart Business Systems.
• Cloud consulting
• IBM Cloud Computing 
  An emerging compute model—cloud computing—has evolved to address the explosive growth of Internet-connected devices, and to complement the increasing presence of technology in today's world. Cloud computing focuses on the user, and offers highly efficient acquisition and delivery of IT and information services.
• IBM Smart Business Solutions
• DeveloperWorks Cloud Computing Resource Center
  Develop, deploy, and manage applications, paying only for the time and capacity you use, while scaling up or down to accommodate changing needs or business requirements.
• IBM Technology Adoption Program (TAP)
  IBM’s Technology Adoption Program (TAP) supports innovators in IBM to make collaborative innovation faster, easier and more cost-effectively. With more than 92,000 early adopters in just the last 12 months- there are now more than 70 active ‘incubations’ and 10 new formalized technology projected developed.

IBM clients and IBMers speak on the value of cloud computing

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