From PC World: IBM on Monday rolled out a new cloud-computing strategy aimed at large enterprises, formed around the notion of tying cloud services to specific IT tasks. Two initial services announced Monday focus on application development and testing and virtual desktop management. Customers will be offered three varieties of development-related cloud services. One is the IBM Smart Business Test Cloud, which is a behind-the-firewall cloud built by IBM on a client's infrastructure. IBM is also previewing Smart Business Development & Test, which employs its Rational application development software and will run on IBM's public cloud. In addition, Big Blue is offering dev-and-test capabilities through its IBM Cloudburst appliances, which combine hardware, storage, networking, virtualization and service management capabilities. View: Article @ Source Site |