IBM CloudBurst V1.2

A complement to your existing enterprise, IBM® CloudBurst v1.2™ is a Smart Business System that supports workloads to simplify your cloud computing acquisition and deployment. It’s a prepackaged and self-contained service delivery platform that can be easily and quickly implemented in a data center. It allows the data center to accelerate the creation of service platforms for all types of workloads with a high degree of integration, flexibility, and resource optimization, providing an enhanced request-driven user experience, while helping to drive down costs and accelerating time to market for the business. This offering allows organizations to pilot and prove a cloud computing model, and provides the tools to extend cloud offerings into production.

IBM CloudBurst is an important component of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative and is a new "Smart Business System" offering as described in the IBM Cloud Computing strategy referenced in the October 2009 IBM Smart Business and IBM Dynamic Infrastructure announcements.

IBM CloudBurst includes GTS implementation services, which ensures that a complete package of hardware and software is operational right away in your environment.

Built on the IBM System x BladeCenter® platform, IBM CloudBurst provides pre-installed, fully integrated service management capabilities across hardware, middleware and applications. Expanded features and benefits for this new release include:

• Delivery of integrated IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting capability to help enable chargeback for cloud services to optimize system usage


• Supports ability to manage other heterogeneous resources outside of the IBM CloudBurst environment


• Enhanced service management capability delivered via IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager V7.2 to support new levels of ease of use


• Integration with Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management that enables monitoring and management of energy usage of IT and facility resources, which can assist with efforts to optimize energy consumption for higher efficiency of resources, in an effort to help lower operating cost.


• Optional high availability using Tivoli systems automation and VMWare high availability that can provide protection against unplanned blade outages and can help simplify virtual machine mobility during planned changes.


• Optional secure cloud management server with IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security platform. IBM Proventia protects the CloudBurst production cloud with Virtual Patch, Threat Detection and Prevention, Proventia Content Analysis, Proventia Web Application Security, and Network Policy enforcement.

IBM Cloudburst v1.2 replaces v1.1 for new CloudBurst system order fulfillment. Product numbers are unchanged from the previous CloudBurst announcement.