With cloud being the current buzz, and not wanting their client base to stray, it was only going to be a matter of time until IBM announced their cloud offerings. And boy did they announce, in fact, I can't remember a bigger set of announcements from IBM all year?
Whether you're a business looking at deploying a private cloud within your own firewalls or you're looking to tap into a public cloud, IBM has got your back, catering for both.
My personal favourite (no bias) was the IBM starter kit for cloud. I remember seeing businesses take the early steps of dabbling with virtualisation in a small test environment 2 years ago, they're now at the point where 80-90% of their estate is virtualised, cloud ready and like 2 years prior they're wanting to dip their toe in the cloud shaped water.
As it says on the tin, the IBM starter kit for cloud will give businesses the building blocks to create first time private clouds on virtualised system X and Bladecenter hardware. It doesn't have to stop there though, once comfortable with the cloud environment that they've created, IT managers can quickly and efficiently scale to more advanced cloud environments as the businesses demand for cloud computing increases.
I read somewhere that only 33% of businesses have trialed cloud computing, so whether IBM's estimate of supporting 200 million users by the end of 2012 is ambitious,I'm not sure, but they're certainly putting some good foundations in place.
IBM starter kit for cloud is available from Nov 18th
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