IBM announces cloud Computing consulting and implementation services

Cloud computing is gaining popularity, says Ben Pring, a senior analyst at Gartner. "It's becoming a popular word." "But the problem is that everyone seems to have a different understanding of cloud computing," he said. As a metaphor for the internet, "cloud" is easy to understand. But once associated with computing, its meaning expands and becomes blurred. Some analysts and companies have defined cloud computing only as an upgraded version of computing-basically the many virtual servers available on the Internet. Others have defined cloud computing more broadly, saying that everything consumers consume outside the firewall is in the cloud.

Cloud computing is a concern that people need to find a way to increase the capacity and capacity of the Internet without adding new investments, new human resources and new software, given what the IT industry really needs. And cloud computing provides that possibility. Today, cloud computing is at a start-up stage, with large and small companies offering a wide range of cloud computing services, from software applications to http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13684.html "> Network storage to mail filtering." These companies are part of the infrastructure provider and the other is SaaS (software as a service) provider like Salesforce.com. The main achievement today is internet-based personal services, but the aggregation and consolidation of cloud computing is emerging.

For most people in the industry, the importance of cloud computing for future business computing is unquestionable. But just as every new technology or trend comes along with the advent of extremism, the idea that cloud computing will be a complete reversal of tradition is confusing.

The impact of cloud computing has also become a hot topic of discussion among CTO recently. In these discussions, most CTO agree that Cloud computing will play an important role in enterprise computing. But they also agree that cloud computing will play a more supportive, rather than a substitute, role. Cloud computing does not replace everything we know about business computing.

The CTO, represented by Dan Geller, has made a good summary of the main factors hindering the widespread adoption of cloud computing. They argue that traditional business-to-business companies have developed thousands of application code in the course of their past, which cannot be run as a service. Now, many of these companies have begun to learn to use SOA architectures to build applications that allow them to outsource part of the application that can be used as a service in the cloud. However, they will not allow most mission-critical applications to run as a service. Therefore, cloud computing can still be used only in some areas and scope.

According to foreign media reports, this Monday, IBM announced the introduction of cloud computing consulting and implementation services, as well as related validation procedures.

Cloud computing provides software and services via the Internet and is implemented by the Web browser interface. Users to join cloud computing does not need to install a server or any client software, can be at any time, any place, any equipment (provided that the Internet) on a random visit, so as to achieve cost-cutting for enterprises.

IBM Global Enterprise Consulting Services (BUSINESS) will use the increasingly pervasive internet-based storage and computing to monitor enterprise Cloud computing consulting services designed to provide customers with assessments.

IBM also launched an elastic cloud validation (resilient Cloud Validation) program in Monday that can help customers verify the reliability of Third-party partners that provide applications and services for themselves.