In India, IBM India has announced the launch of the IBM Smart Cloud Entry specifically designed to discuss customer requirements in India. The IBM Smart Cloud Entry is an entry-level private cloud offering that is simple to deploy and easy to use. Allowing them to easily start the transition to a cloud-based infrastructure and reap the benefits of a cloud delivery model, the IBM Smart Cloud Entry enables organizations to quickly deploy self-service provisioning of virtualized workloads. To provide the best overview it uses a simple interface throughout the time of increasing IT efficiency and lowering administration costs. While the IT managers can check and manage this environment for improved efficiency and utilization of the data center, users can now request and provision an environment quickly through an easy-to-use web-based interface. By allowing additional servers or blades to be added to the cloud infrastructure this enables rapid scalability. To support a pay-per-use business model it also includes basic workload metering.
From the economist Intelligence Unit and IBM has found that among 572 business leaders surveyed, almost three fourths show their companies have piloted. The number of respondents whose companies have substantially implemented cloud are expected to grow from 13 percent today to 41 percent in three years. From thousands of IBM client engagements and millions of cloud-based transactions IBM manages every day, the IBM Smart Cloud Entry is part of the Smart Cloud Foundation Portfolio that contains a core set of private-cloud functions distilled. From the scratch or transform their current virtualized system into a highly efficient cloud infrastructure to help both entry level companies and more excellent clients quickly adopt private clouds the portfolio was made.
Vice President of Growth Initiatives, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/South Asia, Rahul Bindal stated that cloud computing offers an enormous opportunity to innovate, it is more than simply saving on IT implementation costs. Competitive positioned for Indian enterprises to easily tap in to the benefits of Cloud is their solution. Together with the IBM Smart Cloud Entry they will enable clients to change smoothly to a cloud-based infrastructure with an easy to use wed based interface. They are enabling their partners to deploy the solution on top of their X-series and P-series, while it is essentially a software tool that can run on any x86 platform.
Also an in depth know how on implementing this solution to different business need in India not just partner enablement contains not only understanding the basic features of smart cloud entry, with both sales and implementation training on smart cloud entry in India IBM has enabled various business partners. Over 2000 clients has helped by IBM with its years of experience in optimizing and implementing cloud infrastractures, by its successful plan and its implementation of private clouds in the previous year alone. By designing, managing and tuning their IT infrastructure in this new generation IBM has call it as Smarter Computing by an enterprise it can reverse the IT conundrum, this strategy can bring into line by the smart cloud entry.
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http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/News/Home/IBM-India-launches-Smart-Cloud-Entry/21/27/11940/GS1202293110552
http://www.informationweek.in/Cloud_Computing/12-02-29/IBM_India_launches_Smart_Cloud_Entry.aspx
http://www.crn.in/Services-001Mar012-IBM-Launches-Smart-Cloud-Entry.aspx
