IBM(NYSE IBM) has announced enhancements across its systems portfolio that is designed to help organizations adopt cloud computing as they build toward Software Defined Environments (SDE).
New capabilities added to the IBM PureSystems family expert integrated systems are designed to help clients reduce the security risks often faced when deploying cloud solutions, as well as enable quick recovery and restoration after disasters. A new mobile solution based on IBM Worklight server on PureSystems for both Power and x86 was created to accelerate clients’ access to millions of mobile users by allowing mobile applications to be deployed in as little as 30 minutes.
"Cloud computing and Big Data analytics are playing key roles in helping organizations lower operating expenses and improve efficiencies. But they are also enabling greater and faster access to business insights, which is fundamentally transforming the ways in which organizations, public and private, are interacting with, learning from, and supporting their customers productivity," said Ajay Mittal, Director, Systems & Technology Group, IBM India/ South Asia.
Besides rolling out its new IBM FlashSystem family of all-Flash appliances, the company has announced enhancements to its storage portfolio that will help more clients achieve faster and continuous access to business-critical information.
IBM also enhanced its Easy Tier technology, which automatically moves data to the most effective storage tier in a storage system for faster performance and greater efficiency. The new Easy Tier Server function helps boost performance even further by caching the "hottest", most-frequently accessed data to the EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer on IBM Power Systems.
