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  • Solutions to accelerate cloud deployment while ensuring service quality (196KB)

    January 2011, IBM cloud computing offerings and cloud services speed cloud computing automation and cloud deployment to establish a productive cloud computing architecture. This solution brief identifies choices for deploying cloud services that range from stand-alone cloud software and to turnkey cloud solutions.

  • Building a Dynamic Infrastructure with IBM Power Systems: A Closer Look at Private Cloud TCO

    March 2010 - This paper examines the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a dynamic infrastructure built around private cloud services and compares it to public cloud alternatives as well as conventional one-application-per-distributed server models. The results show that private cloud implementations built around new POWER7 based servers can be up to 90% less expensive than public cloud options over a three year period and over 70% less than a distributed stand-alone server approach.

  • Reducing IT Operation Costs with IBM Power Systems Cloud Solutions

    October 2010 - This paper describes an approach to help answer this question. We first examined the challenge of IT labor costs. We then introduced the key components of the Power Systems cloud solutions and how each tier of the private cloud stack fits within the virtualization, standardization and automation model.

  • How to Make the Most of Cloud Computing Without Sacrificing Control

    October 2010 - This white paper looks at IBM's well-balanced approach to managing cloud services across their full lifecycle. Cloud computing can deliver strong values in terms of cost savings and more flexible, versatile and potentially even more resilient IT services.

  • Effective storage management and data protection for cloud computing (994KB)

    Storing, protecting and providing access to cloud-based information is central to reliable cloud-based service delivery. IBM offers a complete portfolio of software and services solutions for effectively managing data and storage in the cloud, even in mixed-vendor environments.

  • Cloud Computing Payback - An Explanation of Where the ROI Comes from (994KB)

    Today, organizations of all sizes are investigating cloud computing and the benefits it can bring to their company. Given the numerous claims of savings and productivity improvements, it can become difficult to understand exactly how these benefits might apply to your particular IT environment. The representations of savings in this guide are based on a 2009 Cloud Computing ROI study conducted by IBM Research. The study uses customer environment data and cost saving data from more than one dozen companies working with IBM on Cloud Computing. The results overview the financial benefits of implementing cloud computing and provide quantitative analysis of the payback. As you will see, the financial benefits of cloud computing are very real, the payback period is characteristically very short and the action steps to obtain these savings are very well defined.

  • The Benefits of Cloud Computing (650KB)

    Cloud computing liberates organizations to deliver IT services as never before. Cloud enables the dynamic availability of IT applications and infrastructure, regardless of location. More rapid service delivery results from the ability to orchestrate the tasks to create, configure, provision and add computing power in support of IT and business services much more quickly than would be possible with today’s computing infrastructure. Read more to discover compelling reasons for diving enter the Cloud pool.

  • Dispelling the vapor around cloud computing - Drivers, barriers and considerations for public and private cloud adoption (895KB)

    Cloud computing liberates organizations to deliver IT services as never before. Cloud enables the dynamic availability of IT applications and infrastructure, regardless of location. More rapid service delivery results from the ability to orchestrate the tasks to create, configure, provision and add computing power in support of IT and business services much more quickly than would be possible with today’s computing infrastructure. Read more to discover compelling reasons for diving enter the Cloud pool.