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A world class cloud computing capability
The infrastructure that hosts the wimbledon.com Web site operates as a ‘cloud’. IBM provides a world class cloud computing capability to the All England Club to scale up dramatically for the Wimbledon Championships. IBM rapidly creates and provisions services on a common infrastructure - services that are mission critical to the tennis tournament. IBM takes an asset such as realtime and historic sports data and leverages it using a common infrastructure to deploy services of all kinds to consumers on different platforms (Web, iPhone, mobile, and iPad).
IBM has also added new services and new platforms so that we can deliver these assets every year, all the while managing traffic growth and reducing costs such as energy, floor space and labour.
IBM’s definition of a Cloud is a new consumption and delivery model for IT and IT enabled services:
- it’s an infrastructure management methodology; a way to manage large numbers of highly virtualised resources
- it’s transparent access to computing resources
- it’s highly standardised
- it’s a simplified, shared and highly virtualised environment (i.e. consolidated, virtualised and automated)
- provides dynamic allocation/de-allocation of “services”
As part of our workload optimisation initiative, we have implemented the following:
- System X for Presentation Services (Web Serving)
We are taking further advantage of Virtualisation and Integrated Service Management technologies to ensure we have an Optimised Infrastructure. We now have:
- a single integrated solution for both monitoring and management of the infrastructure
- a highly scalable, continuously available and secure infrastructure
- established “services” for presentation, middleware, and publishing
- the ability to customise the visualisation of the elements that are most important by job role (system administrator, Web master, network administrator etc.)
- the ability to extend the solution to monitor almost any facet of the infrastructure
- a fully virtualised environment (site, servers and storage)
- enhanced compliance with security policies and a stronger overall security posture
- maximised intrusion prevention due to multi-layered protection
- a more energy efficient infrastructure
