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Conserve energy. Consolidate resources. Make information secure and available whenever and wherever it's needed. With requirements like these, we have to be smarter about accessing, processing and storing data.
This means thinking beyond the desktop and outside our own data centres. Thinking about more intelligent ways to handle the 15 petabytes of new information we generate each day, and the massive increase of connected devices we use to work with that data. Optimised for the remarkably diverse workloads managed by businesses, organisations and governments.
It's time for a platform designed for efficient, effective computing in wide open spaces...in other words, everywhere. It's time to think cloud.
The benefits of cloud computing — accessing your data and applications stored on remote hardware by way of the Internet instead of keeping it all in your local workstation — still requires a leap of logic for many. But now that a workstation can go anywhere as a smartphone, a stripped-down netbook, or even an e-book reader, it's practically a virtual desktop operating in conjunction with a virtual server anyway. If the user can be anywhere, so can the source for data and applications.
The cloud equation adds in the flexibility to scale bandwidth up or down at will and the affordability of pay-as-you-go service, and subtracts energy-devouring hardware from your local environment. Factor in the IBM security and experience that go into each of its industry-leading global cloud computing centres and myriad enterprise private clouds. The result: an instrumented, interconnected, intelligent approach to smarter computing.
My Cloud:
Mailbox, collaboration space, virtual server… we each find the best use for cloud computing. That’s how we build a smarter planet.
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IBM's forecast: a smarter planet covered in clouds
South African financial institution Nedbank is automating business processes through cloud technology. "IBM cloud technology has proved to us that we can shorten [business process automation environment deployment] provisioning time significantly, reduce our cost and also increase the agility with which we can respond to business demands," said Nicholas Parry, Nedbank.
With IBM Smart Business Virtual Desktop, Pike County School District in Eastern Kentucky has reduced end-user support costs more than 62 percent while providing equal access to education content across 27 schools and just over 2,000 desktops. The introduction of new courseware — what used to take more than a year — can now be implemented instantly across all schools.
"Cloud computing increases our flexibility in providing IT resources to meet the growing demands of our global business," said Mr. Peng Jin Song, General Manager, Information Technology at Sinochem. "With IBM CloudBurst and the technical expertise from IBM Cloud Labs in China, we will be able to pool and maximise our resources to run our global business on the most efficient infrastructure possible."
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