IBM SmartCloud emphasizes mobile environments and large data

Over the past 15 months, IBM has taken a number of column steps and has developed a robust cloud computing strategy that extends from a previously disconnected list of products and technologies to a group that runs through splitting software.

In April 2011, IBM announced its SmartCloud strategy, a brand reshaping of cloud-related infrastructure, service (IaaS) and Platform-Service (PaaS) products, making it easier to deploy and manage public clouds. The company follows SmartCloud Foundations, a collection that facilitates the construction and management of public and/or private clouds. In the past March, IBM has disclosed its intention to construct a generic technology stack for the cloud based on the open standard Reference model. Finally, in April 2012, IBM released some of the puresystems--and directly deployed cloud system integration servers, storage, and network performance.

So what is IBM's next cloud plan? Searchcloudcomputing.com a dialogue with IBM's vice president of strategy, cloud computing and business infrastructure, Scott Hebner, on the development of IBM's cloud computing strategy.

IBM's first three-stage cloud computing strategy has been delivered.

Scott Hebner: In this year's CEO annual survey, the first-ranked cloud is moving when delivered. Mobile and cloud are different sides of the same coin in the minds of many customers, so we are building an inherently cloud-based mobile platform. This is a development and run-time environment, combined with management and security, plus applications like Lotus and Business Analytics. This is an intrinsic building on the SmartCloud principle of IQ platform. You will see this maturity.

In the "Big Data" and analysis times, you'll see the concept of an integrated expert system that makes it easier to deploy and manage the cloud. In a smarter infrastructure, you'll see more features to deploy and manage cloud services for the automotive industry and medical devices.

How long will we see it?

Scott Hebner: You'll see at the end of the year, but this is an incremental process. From a purely cloud vision, you will see more integration, support for open standards, common stack implementations, and SaaS functionality that will emerge. The biggest thing is the concept of a professional model (the notion of patterns of expertise), which instilled experience in SmartCloud, so redundant tasks can be automated.

So is the IBM conference buying form embedded in these experiences?

Scott Hebner: Yes. This includes administrative experience, deployment experience, and management experience. We're trying to capture these schema concepts-which customers are doing to deploy to the system-like instilling experience. The idea is to instill experience in SmartCloud. One of the biggest differences from the technical point of view is the workload cloud environment, which allows you to transfer workloads from one cloud to another.

Can you transfer workloads from legacy systems to the cloud?

Scott Hebner: This is part of it, but the idea of optimizing workloads is important because many workloads do not fully understand the environment in which they are running, so it is difficult to manage them, provide where they should go, and improve service quality. We will be able to help users build the workload cloud and build it more intelligently so they can accept it.

I haven't heard IBM promote analytics in the cloud. It seems to be the driving advantage of the two years.

Scott Hebner: Yes, that's the area we need to fill. You'll hear more in the SaaS field.

So is analysis the service coming?

Scott Hebner: It's coming, but we haven't seen a more forceful statement.

And why?

Scott Hebner: There's no planning at the moment, but maybe we haven't got a strong enough success story yet. For example, one of the SaaS products, SmartCloud Business Analytics, allows you to do some analysis. This is also where SOA is important. Our Business Analytics feature has a way around SOA, and we've reused a lot of things like smartcloud provisioning.

Is security still the first reason companies are unwilling to move to the cloud?

Scott Hebner: That's the result of the survey I contacted. I think there are a lot of changes to be made. If you remember, when we first moved to E-commerce, what was the first big question, was IT security? It's the same thing. But our view is that when you move to a cloud or virtual environment, you actually have the opportunity to become more secure. What would be safer? To put 100 people on 10 planes to California, or to put 100 people on a plane? You want to reduce the load and start delivering dynamic services from a more integrated common infrastructure, which is easier to secure and easier to manage compliance risks. Customers ' concerns about security are not inhibitors, but more like driving to the clouds.

How long will it take to get out of the first place?

Scott Hebner: I don't know. We will issue a smartcloud statement at the end of the year, and security will be a big chunk, because we want to emphasize this view. We also need to make the case more convincing, which is that moving to the cloud is actually a more secure approach, especially in a growing number of interactive and intelligent worlds. We have passed the whole new security Department, we have acquired Q1 Labs, so we have a professional alliance to focus on security. This is also a major growth opportunity.

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