IBM announces new measures to help boost cloud adoption

IBM has unveiled new pricing structures and licensing options as it looks to encourage more businesses to take advantage of cloud computing technology.

The firm will allow independent software vendors to rent its products with zero per cent financing and deferred payments, aimed at enticing more companies into the world of cloud.

According to channelbuzz.ca, IBM believes that there is $7 billion (£4.28 billion) worth of potential in cloud hosting services in the next four years and is doing all it can to take advantage.

Dave Mitchell, director of strategy for independent software vendors developer relations at IBM, told the news provider that cost is the key to whether businesses sign up.

“For anyone looking at the characteristics of cloud computing, this pay-as-you-go or subscription type of pricing is a key part,” he said.

“Our application developers delivering SaaS solutions tend to offer via the subscription model, and in response to that, we’re aligning our middleware pricing with how they charge.”

Last month, IBM opened a new cloud services centre in Singapore to help local companies with cloud adoption.

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Cloud computing in the public sector Planning for best practices in next generation IT platforms

By: Quocirca
Published: April 2011

“Cloud”computing is a term being used in many different ways, many of them seeming to offer the ultimate silver bullet in providing an IT platform.  However, many issues currently remain, and it is likely that cloud computing will be many years in maturation and acceptance in the mainstream business and public sector communities.

Governments around the world have been looking at how best to reduce functional redundancy through the concept of “shared services” where different departments share a single source of function.  For example, in the UK, a concept for a government cloud (“G-Cloud”) has been proposed to provide the shared services described by Sit Peter Gershon in his 2004 report – but this may have to be revisited under the current government spend reviews.

Planning for best practices in next generation IT platforms:
The public sector is under increasing pressure to ensure that IT investments both provide flexible support for a rapidly changing world and also do not overly replicate functionality that may be used across central and local departments and groups.  Cloud computing looks like it may provide a solution here – but this will only be the case if a measured and realistic approach to implementation and usage is taken.

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