IBM Expands SmartCloud Portfolio to Partners, SMBs
IBM has been around for more than a century, and is a traditional player in the market, to say the least. However the company is always making strides to adapt to market trends in order to stay competitive, and in less than a century it moved from manufacturing tabulating equipment to offering enterprise cloud services.
This week Big Blue announced an expansion to its SmartCloud offerings line-up, introducing several new products and services.
The first two offerings are SmartCloud Enterprise+ and SmartCloud Application Services. The former is an IaaS that will become available to IBM Business Partners in the first half of 2012, and the latter is a set of tools enabling enterprises to deliver their software via the cloud. It’s currently available via the SmartCloud Application Service beta program.
“SmartCloud Enterprise+ will provide an enterprise class Infrastructure-as-a-Service including enterprise class governance, administration and management control, multiple security and isolation options built into the virtual infrastructure and network and real business-centric SLAs that align IBM accountability to your business.”
The second set of new offerings IBM introduced today is called a private cloud line-up called SmartCloud Foundation, which is designed for SMBs and is available to partners via BM PartnerWorld reseller programs. It includes IBM SmartCloud Entry, a scaled down cloud management platform, BM SmartCloud Provisioning and IBM SmartCloud Monitoring.
IBM has an aggressive strategy that’s taking on Google, Amazon and the rest of the cloud the world in full force. Also today, following the acquisition of cluster and grid management software maker Platform Computing the company signed an OEM agreement with storage startup Nirvanix to power a new cloud service. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier discussed IBM’s competitive decisions and the Nirvanix deal in a post this morning, as well as the Big Blue’s goals for the future.
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