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November 15, 2007

Cloud Computing

More companies will soon benefit from cloud computing.  Based on open standards and open source technology, it'€™s the beginning of a very important strategy for the future of large-scale computing.

What’s a cloud?

Cloud computing is an emerging computing model which changes the way which software is accessed via the Internet. These cloud applications utilize massive data centers and powerful servers that host Web applications and services. In most cases, they can be accessed by anyone with a suitable Internet connection and a standard Web browser.

The need for cloud computing is also fueled by dramatic growth in connected devices, real time data streams, the adoption of service oriented architectures and Web 2.0 applications such as search, open collaboration, social networking, and mobile commerce.

Enter the Blue Cloud

Blue Cloud is a first step toward creating an integrated, next-generation solution to scale-out infrastructure, using the best of IBM systems and software technologies and expertise. The new collaboration services are designed for cloud computing environments which are optimized for corporate, government and academic clients. The services are particularly focused on the breakthroughs required in IT management simplification to ensure security, privacy and reliability, as well as high utilization and efficiency.

Blue Cloud is based on IBM's Almaden Research Center cloud infrastructure -- will include Xen and PowerVM virtualized Linux operating system images and Hadoop parallel workload scheduling.  It is supported by IBM Tivoli software that manages servers to ensure optimal performance based on demand. This includes software that is capable of instantly provisioning resources across multiple servers to provide users with a seamless experience that speeds performance and ensures reliability even under the most demanding situations. Tivoli monitoring checks the health of the provisioned servers and makes sure they meet service level agreements.

The value to customers? It's an emerging approach to shared IT infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services, using Internet and SOA-based standards. Today clients build and run extremely complex, under-utilized and unsustainable scale-out environments.

Earlier this week, IBM and the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) announced an open innovation pilot program that will run on a cloud computing infrastructure. Also this week in Shanghai, Dr. Willy Chiu, Vice President of the IBM High Performance on Demand Solutions team, demonstrated how cloud computing technologies, running on IBM BladeCenters with Power and x86 processors, dynamically provision and allocate resources as workloads fluctuate for an application.

Next year, IBM will make the first Blue Cloud environments available to customers with System z "mainframe" and highly dense rack clusters in mind for future iterations.

Learn more on Dean Takahashi's blog at the San Jose Mercury News.

by Will Runyon

November 15, 2007 in Design Permalink

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