IBM has unveiled next-gen cloud services and technology advances for clients moving enterprise business processes into production cloud environments.
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 its SmartCloud, its next-gen enterprise cloud technologies and services offerings for private, public and hybrid clouds based on IBM hardware, software, services and practices.
IBM said that the new offering will allow enterprise clients to select key characteristics of a public, private and hybrid cloud to match workload requirements from Web infrastructure to complex business processes, along with five dimensions, including: security and isolation; availability and performance; technology platforms; management support and deployment; and payment and billing.
Further, the new services include: SmartCloud; Workload Deployer; Cloud Standards Customer Council; and Social Business in the Cloud.
