IBM Unveils SmartCloud Services, Technologies For Enterprises

IBM has announced next generation cloud services and technology advances for clients moving key enterprise business processes into production cloud environments to innovate, reduce costs and increase agility. To accelerate the shift from experimentation, development and assessment to full scale enterprise deployment of cloud, IBM is building out its existing cloud portfolio with IBM SmartCloud, its next-generation, enterprise cloud technologies and services offerings for private, public and hybrid clouds based on IBM hardware, software, services and best practices. Announcements include new services, software, standards initiatives, and customers wins, which include IBM SmartCloud, which will be offered in two tiers, Enterprise and Enterprise +, giving clients choice and economic benefits, combining the cost saving and scalability of a shared environment plus the flexibility to “dial-in” the security, existing applications, reliability, management and support services more typical of a private environment. IBM is joining with more than 45 global enterprises like Citigroup, Lockheed Martin and NC State University to help advance cloud adoption prioritising key interoperability issues such as management, reference architectures, hybrid cloud, as well as security and compliance, thus forming the Cloud Standards Customer Council.