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CLOUD HOSTING

– IBM CloudBurst Review

Product Snapshot

Technology

IBM CloudBurst is deployed and integrated into the customer’s data center and network. Pre-packaged, pre-configured servers, storage, networking, software, and installation services are needed.

Customer Focus

IBM CloudBurst is targeted at enterprise-level businesses.

Select Customers

Citigroup, Vietnam Technology and Telecommunication (VNTT), Nedbank, Kantana Animation Studios, North Carolina State, Wuxi Lake Tai, Ecomanage Network Corporation, Getronics, BlueLock.

Pricing

IBM offers various pricing options, including monthly payments or an up-front fee of around $210.000.

About Product

IBM CloudBurst is a family of pre-integrated service delivery platforms that include all the necessary components to create a private cloud environment. CloudBurst delivers hardware, storage, networking, virtualization, and service management software. It allows data centers to more quickly create service platforms for a wide range of processes with a high degree of flexibility, all the while cutting costs. IBM CloudBurst enables organizations to move towards a more dynamic infrastructure. Also see IBM Maximo Asset Management.

About IBM
International Business Machines or IBM is a publicly traded global technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. IBM provides computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in fields ranging from server farms to nanotechnology.

Product Key Features

Leadership Virtualization

Providing more efficient utilization of IT resources
Reducing hardware cost through economy of scale
Enterprise quality of service capabilities (scalability, performance, availability and security) to support mission-critical workloads

Elastic Scaling

Improve performance and scalability by optimizing IT assets based on workload and ensure the ideal elasticity of your cloud
Increasing flexibility with the capability to scale seamlessly from 1/10 of a core to 256 cores and to use all resources of the host server

Automated Management, Provisioning & Service Delivery

Combines management functions into a single virtualization management tool
Automated provisioning of standardized virtual images for all Power Platforms (AIX, PowerLinux and IBM i) reduces deployment times from days to hours and minimizes deployment errors
Improved manageability by combining multiple virtual resources into one manageable entity
Automated virtual image mobility within the system pool for optimal utilization and resilience
Optimizes virtual assets within a system pool for performance, availability and energy use

Self Service and Service Catalog

User-friendly self-service interface accelerates time to value
Service catalog enables standards to drive consistent service delivery
Provisioning of assets based on defined policies reduces deployment times and lowers IT costs
Automated provisioning and deprovisioning improves customer satisfaction by accelerating service delivery
Provisioning policies allow automated release and reuse of assets without IT intervention

Flexible Metering & Billing

Improves cost transparency
Offers more flexible pricing schemes
Enables IT to understand costs as well as track, allocate and invoice by department, user and many other additional criteria