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Seeding the Clouds: Key Infrastructure Elements for Cloud Computing
Today’s IT realities make cloud computing a good fit for meeting the needs of both IT providers who demand unprecedented flexibility and efficiency, lower costs and complexity and support for varied and huge workloads and Internet users who expect exceptionally high availability, function and speed.
As technology—such as virtualization and corresponding management services like automation, monitoring and capacity planning services—become more mature, cloud computing will become more widely used for increasingly diverse and mission-critical workloads. IBM can help. With its distinguished history of managing and supporting the largest and most complex IT infrastructures, and with its long-term pioneering position in the virtualization space, IBM is well-positioned to implement its vision of the cloud computing data center to meet clients’ needs and solve their challenges—today and tomorrow. More....

Breaking through the haze: understanding and leveraging cloud computing
A new, intelligent planet is developing around us — one that enables us to move, interact and conduct business more rapidly than ever before. In a world where almost anyone and anything can connect to the Internet, we are seeing an explosion of technology and information — and connected devices — affecting our everyday lives. With all the added convenience this intelligence explosion has wrought, it has also introduced new levels of complexity. More....

IBM Delivers Down to Earth Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is now part of mainstream discussions in the IT industry. Yet, like other emerging technologies, it is also accompanied by some confusion and hype. This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) Impact Brief introduces cloud computing and the approach IBM is taking to ensure cloud computing delivers real value without the hype. Whether your IT organization is already on the path to adopting some aspects of cloud computing or you are a cloud skeptic, read on to understand what cloud computing can and should mean to you. More....

Podcasts

Using Cloud Computing to reduce costs and better compete in today's economy
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IBM Perspective on Cloud Computing
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Videos

Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses cloud computing with Tech Web TVClick here to watch this video...