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 Cloud Computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand. Cloud Computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting:- It is sold on-demand, typically by the minute or the hour;
- it is elastic : a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and
- The service is fully managed by the provider (the consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access).
Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a challenging economy, have accelerated demand for cloud computing solutions. Cloud Computing can be categorised based on Service Models and Deployment Models: Cloud Service Models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides users with processing, storage, networks, and other computing infrastructure resources. The user does not manage or control the infrastructure, but has control over operating systems, applications, and programming frameworks.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) enables users to deploy applications developed using specified programming languages or frameworks and tools onto the Cloud infrastructure. The user does not manage or control the underlying infrastructure, but has control over deployed applications.
- Software as a Service (SaaS) enables users to access applications running on a Cloud infrastructure from various end-user devices (generally through a web browser). The user does not manage or control the underlying Cloud infrastructure or individual application capabilities other than limited user-specific application settings.
Cloud Deployment Models - Private clouds are operated solely for one organization. They may be managed by the organization itself or by a third party, and they may exist on- premises or off.
- Public clouds are open to the general public or a large industry group and are owned and managed by a Cloud service provider.
- Hybrid clouds combine two or more clouds (private or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by technology that enables data and application portability.
- Community clouds feature infrastructure that is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community. They may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may exist on-premises or off.
Businesses are moving to the cloud, to lower their IT costs and increase their efficiency. We can help you with your Cloud computing strategy, architecture design, cloud provider selection, cloud infrastructure management, virtualization, email infrastructure, server infrastructure, high availability and high scalability. We have expertise in working with all the major cloud providers, back-end architectures, server and hosting setups and technologies to help ensure we can keep your mission critical infrastructure humming along nicely 24/7 on premise or in the cloud. We provide consulting, audit and training on highly available and highly scalable infrastructure and can help companies of any size maximize their return on investment on both on-premise infrastructures and in the cloud. We can also manage and maintain your critical infrastructure and assist you in scaling and migration. Increase Flexibility and Lower your TCO with Server Virtualization. Server virtualization is changing the way IT organizations operate. And Intel® server processors are extending the benefits of software virtualization far beyond consolidation to increase data center flexibility, productivity, and TCO. Intel® server processors with virtualization built in, such as the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series, and the Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series, deliver these benefits. To help you get the most out of virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features. These hardware-assist features accelerate fundamental virtualization processes throughout the platform to reduce latencies and avoid potential bottlenecks, giving you better value from your server and software investments. Because Intel server processors let you do more with less, you can realize energy efficiency and reduce server sprawl. And with remote management features, the ease of failover, and seamless live migrations, you can keep both you and your users happy with reduced support costs and increased uptime levels. Manage WorkloadsGoalsConsolidation with virtualization can reduce complexity by reducing the number of physical devices. But as the number of virtual servers and storage systems increases, other types of “sprawl†can be created. Your IT staff may find themselves occupied with different IT problems – instead of solving business issues. You need all of your provisioning, management and diagnostic tools available on a single pane of glass for simplified systems management and monitoring. The AdvantagesIBM offers innovative software solutions designed to help you simplify and unify management across your virtualized infrastructure. Support ongoing cost savings- Utilize capacity and energy management to enable further consolidation and reduce data center energy costs.
- Enable common integrated management tools across the infrastructure, regardless of domain or platform.
- Increase IT staff productivity.
Improve service delivery- Accelerate identification and remediation of issues and bottlenecks.
- Map dependencies in real time across components to proactively identify potential issues.
- Automate routine administrative tasks to improve response time and reduce user error.
Increase business agility- Accelerate planning and implementation with reference architectures and decision support frameworks.
- Leverage open standards and reuse standardized design elements to create a more modular architecture.
- Proactively plan for future capacity and energy needs of the business.
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Webcast: Virtualization Management Best Practices in Virtualization Management with Tony Iams, Senior Analyst, Ideas International Register for WebcastAutomate ProcessesGoalsAs your marketplace and the world change, your business needs to adapt with them. Which means your IT systems need to be flexible. With a virtualized infrastructure, you have the ability to assign resources to your highest priority business needs. But how do you make the systems even more responsive? With automation. With automated processes based on best practices and business rules, you can reduce manual errors as your IT systems automatically respond to changing business conditions. The AdvantagesIIBM offers solutions designed to automate your virtualized infrastructure to meet regulatory demands and market changes. Support ongoing cost savings- Provision across silos from bare metal to OS, to applications and storage and network to reduce time to market for new services from days to minutes.
- Reduce human errors using automated processes.
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Improve service delivery- Support higher service levels with an infrastructure that is more self-aware and self-healing.
- Better manage demand spikes and differentiate genuine demand from security attacks on the infrastructure.
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Increase business agility- Support business-based decision making with a more versatile IT options.
- Reduce the risk and cost for business strategy implementation.
- Ensure alignment of infrastructure services to business objectives.
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Webcast: Optimizing IT Service Delivery with Cloud ComputingImprove agility and business effectiveness with Cloud Computing. Register for WebcastOptimize DeliveryGoalsYou need business priorities to drive your IT infrastructure (not the other way around.) You need your users to be able to self-provision IT resources as appropriate. Delivery optimization solutions put business users and processes in control to dynamically drive the underlying IT infrastructure. This can help assure that resources are delivered in the most timely and efficient manner. The AdvantagesIBM offers delivery optimization solutions that can support self-provisioning, on demand, cloud-based "virtual enterprises" that are entirely unconstrained by physical barriers or location and more. Support ongoing cost savings- Automatically reserve and reclaim computing power to virtually eliminate underutilization.
- Support standardization with business-ready cloud offerings for significant gains in productivity and rapid return on investment.
- Gain awareness of usage-based costs to highlight efficiency opportunities and facilitate granular chargeback.
Improve service delivery- Provide self service capabilities for provisioning application stacks as services.
- Ensure that resources are directed to the workloads that matter most to business clients.
- Support elastic scaling to avoid disruptive capacity shortfalls.
Increase business agility- Facilitate rapid provisioning of new services or resources and the scaling of established services to dramatically increase business agility.
- Support creativity by almost entirely decoupling business decisions from infrastructure constraints.
- Preserve business capital by exploiting pay-as-you-go, self-service access to virtualized resources virtually anywhere and anytime, whether internal or external to the organization.
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