Carl Brooks of searchCloudComputing.com just put out an interesting piece on IBM’s updating as Tivoli as a complement and perhaps a replacement for VMware in the building of private clouds. The industry seems to be taking some notice of IBM’s approach to the cloud, finally.
Did IBM just change the game in private cloud?
By Carl Brooks, Senior Technology Writer
02 Mar 2011 | searchCloudComputing.com
Does IBM have the wherewithal to compete in the commodity hardware cloud?
Say “IBM” and “cloud computing” in the same breath and many IT managers will roll their eyes. The IT leader’s cloud strategy has been seen by many as a mess.
But that may be about to change. IBM recently revealed a beta program of updates to its Tivoli software that may breathe new life into the company’s private cloud ambitions.
The new capabilities include support for VMware’s VIM APIs in a variety of Tivoli tools, including image repositories, automated provisioning, application deployment and Tivoli Storage Manager (integrating TSM and VMware heretofore has not been pretty). Enhancements to Tivoli Provisioning Manager may include booting VMware images directly from block storage instead of having them preloaded into memory. IBM claims that images can be booted in seconds.
Read the rest here.
Carl Brooks is the Senior Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com. Contact him at cbrooks@techtarget.com.
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, IBM, security, SOA, strategy, virtualization, VMware
