IBM has introduced advanced virtual deployment software as an open beta programme that the company says enables organisations to build a cloud environment rapidly and manage it with greater ease.
The company said that with dynamic provisioning and scheduling of server resources, the new software can virtualise a data centre within minutes to instantly meet business demand.
The new IBM software can deploy a single virtual machine in less time than before with the need of less hands-on management from IT staff.
The IBM software provides a powerful "image management" system to help organisations install, configure and automate the creation of new virtual machines to better meet business demands, while minimising costs, complexity and the risk associated with IT deployment, the company claims.
IBM has also expanded the capabilities of Tivoli Provisioning Manager 7.2 to help organisations better manage virtual computing resources easily by automating best practices for data center provisioning activities.
The new software enables clients to rapidly deploy images in order to provide high value applications, while the automated provisioning helps control image sprawl, reduce cost and optimise resources.
The company also extended service management to hybrid cloud environments, and unveiled IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments that integrates with and extends clients’ requirements to meet backup and recovery needs, online database and application protection, disaster recovery, reduction in stored data, space management, archiving and retrieval.
The Tivoli Storage Manager utilisea VMware’s vStorage APIs for Data Protection, offloads the backup workload from virtual machines and production VMware ESX hosts to vStorage backup servers, provides flexible recovery options, centralises and simplifies management with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
IBM vice president of Cloud Services Ric Telford said the new technologies deliver a definitive step forward in simplifying the way IT staff can manage the cloud.
