IBM rolled out their Smart Cloud Enterprise public cloud offering earlier this Spring. It is based on RedHat KVM virtualisation. Right now, it offers support for RHEL, SLES, and Windows Server 2003/2008 guest operating systems.
- Databases: You can have anything as long as it is DB2 or Informix, both from IBM.
- Monitoring: Tivoli .. yay?
- Application Servers (such as IIS or SharePoint): You can have anything as long as it is IBM WebSphere
- Business Intelligence: You can have anything as long as it is IBM Cognos.
Hmm.
OK, I’m sure the IBM support will be amazing. Oh? … Yeah, I nearly forgot. Of course, big government departments and corporations will lap this up and IBM will make a lot of money.
Right now it is available to USA customers only, according to the website.
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This is true. have you ever wondered how is it possible that IBM still develops (!) and somehow sells software like Lotus Notes, Sametime etc. ? They go in completely opposite direction than any other vendor – eg. MS, Google, etc. move their apps to clouds whereas IBM still creates heavy, user unfriendly, inefficient desktop applications and forces users (internal and – I guess – external) to use this stuff.
I don’t know how! And they are making a lot of money from what they do.