Centralising with IBM Cloudburst

Of the IT pro's that I speak to, many are still somewhat dubious about cloud offerings and what it can do for their business, refusing to be too inspired by 2011/2012's biggest tech buzz.

A common gripe that I'm hearing seems to be worries around security and I can kind of understand this, I mean having confidential data stored on hardware that isn't yours and is probably in a different timezone is about as scary entering a quiz with the cast of TOWIE....

It's worth remembering though, just because the IT dept hasn't got the cash or doesn't feel that it's right for the business, doesn't mean that all of your users will feel the same. With some of the big everyday names involved, cloud's had alot of exposure, individual departments will be asking the question of what cloud can do for them, let them explore alone at your peril!

Individual departments bypassing IT and deploying their own cloud strategies because they believe it to be easy is a big information security risk. IBM Cloudburst offerings for System X can help IT managers centralise cloud services and provide proper policies for its usage.

There's a really good PDF available that gives a good overview of some usage scenarios on the IBM system X platform, it can be found at:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247981.html?Open&sf2939813=1

Which platform?

IBM System X will benefit from leading cluster, grid and cloud management software.

IBM have recently acquired the Canadian  software company Platform Computing who address the challenge of supplying appropriate IT resources to applications and users in any given environment.

With 19 years of steady growth and a client base of over 2000 of the worlds most demanding client organisations, it's  no wonder that IBM have snapped up the market leader to improve their distributed computing offerings.

The technology will be applied to IBM's System X, intelligent cluster solutions which should see them extend their high performance computing reach in the segment of technical computing (a segment which appears to be growing larger by the day)