IBM SmartCloud launch and Private UC Cloud launch information
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A webcast was held to discuss the IBM SmartCloud and Private UC Cloud launch initiatives. Over 900 people popped into the meeting.
- IBM projects the Cloud will be a $7 business for IBM by 2015
- A new website will launch tomorrow at ibm.com/smartcloud
- This is all about rethinking IT. (or how to move your stuff to our servers)
- They had a very tiny busy slide showing Business Process as a Service
- They will be announcing the ability to have a public, private or hybrid cloud (have you seen the Connectria website?)
- New segments will include Smarter Commerce, Social Business and Business Analytics & Optimization
- The new Cloud Computing specialty for partners has launched, as announced in February 2011 at Partnerworld and ibm.com/cloud/partner
- IBM had 2k successful cloud engagements in 2010
- 50% of Fortune 10 and Fortune 50 working on an IBM cloud
Now a change over to clients transforming business using the cloud. They mentioned IBM or internal organization, not partners.
- IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise and Enterprise+ will be launched
- IBM Smart Cloud - foundation for Value-Add services and applications
- Enterprise has self service with advanced premium support; 99.5% availability; virtual and some physical isolation; bring your own software/pay as you go/free developer use; hourly usage with reserved options; Linux/Windows
- Enterprise + has fully managed; 99.9% availability; multiple levels of isolation; IBM provides operating system and tool licenses; monthly usage based and fixed contract; Linux/Windows/AIX
- There are nine different virtual (Intel) server configuration choices
- There are six data centers
- Multiple VLANS for a single virtual machine
Also launched is a IBM Private UC Cloud
- Partner software like telephony management, phone presence and unified messaging
- Lotus software like Quickr, Connections, Domino, Sametime
- Tivoli software for provisioning and management
The end -state vision slide (#21) showed SAP management. Partners were not listed as options in the hosting or cloud solution offerings
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Over to Bethann Craig for LotusLive offerings
- LotusLive won some new clients: Bumba Desa, IndiaFirst Life Insurance, Lofotkraft, Shriram Transport Finance Company
Over to Don Boulia for Blueworks Live
- Document and run processes in the cloud
- IBM Workload Deployer V3 to manage elastic workloads
- IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud. - built on BladeCenter as a single bundle/price/packaged with hardware, software, network and storage.
Cloud Standards Customer Council with Angel Diaz, VP of Software Standards
- This is a reinvention of standards for cloud.
- There are 55 organizations already in the council. You can apply right here
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On Thursday, April 7th, 2011 by Chris Miller
