IBM Blue Cloud Computing Initiative

Continuing in its efforts in making 2009 the Year of the Cloud, IBM (News - Alert) will reveal at events around the world, a series of new products, services, clients and partnerships for its Blue Cloud initiative. IBM is collaborating to develop and test integrated cloud solutions for businesses.

 

Nexxera, a Software and Services company which provides electronic data environment among enterprises, customers and banks for business and financial transactions between firms, has announced that it now works with IBM to create an on demand, resilient, secure and scalable business infrastructure to support its business growth and global expansion.

The IBM Design and Implementation for Cloud Test Environments provides an avenue that allows a customer to build a cloud platform within their own environment. This test cloud environment can save clients up to 20 percent on improved provisioning time improving service and supporting business needs while also reducing labor costs associated with creating test environments, company officials said in a statement.

 

IBM will also unveil new capabilities to selected customers with IBM Business Partner, Juniper Networks (News - Alert). Demonstrating how a hybrid cloud could allow enterprises to extend their private clouds to remote servers in a secure public cloud as high priority applications, IBM and Juniper Networks are giving preference over lower priority ones when resources become constrained.

 

Both companies are installing this network capability into IBM’s nine world wide Cloud Labs for customer engagements. Once installed, the companies will be able to roll client workloads from Beijing to Silicon Valley to Sao Paulo making sure clients never miss a service level agreement.

IMB claims that cloud computing is extremely beneficial economically. IBM claims it helps its clients and partners realize these goals in three principle ways:

 

Last year, IBM announced business consulting and technology services for cloud computing and expanded its network of cloud computing centers significantly. IBM is extending these capabilities with expanded Infrastructure Strategy and Planning Services for cloud computing components.