Building on its $2 billion acquisition of SoftLayer, IBM today announced a series of new offerings that fuse together high value cloud and analytics capabilities to further help clients drive business transformation and growth.
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As part of this expansion, IBM is announcing new social business and mobile offerings for its 100+ software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution portfolio, integrated cloud capabilities with SoftLayer assets and new expert integrated systems for hybrid cloud computing environments.
With today's news, IBM is also announcing a series of global clients
that are turning to IBM's cloud capabilities as a transformative growth
engine in their industry. These include Surfline Communications, a telecommunications provider in Ghana; and TienPhong Commercial Joint Stock Bank, one of the leading financial institutions in Vietnam.
In the new era of computing, the opportunity for cloud is growing
exponentially. In fact, 60 percent of all enterprises are predicted to
adopt some form of cloud computing this year, according to Gartner
Research. In addition, GigaOm Research forecast $158 billion in global
cloud computing investment by 2014.
SoftLayer Infrastructure as the Foundation of IBM Cloud Portfolio
Since its recent acquisition, SoftLayer has already added 1,600 new
clients to its existing roster of 21,000 clients in 140
countries. SoftLayer infrastructure will be the foundation of IBM's
cloud portfolio.
IBM is beginning to shift its cloud portfolio to SoftLayer
infrastructure -- first among many of these shifts includes the IBM
Social Learning platform, a first of its kind social enablement platform
that is part of its Smarter Workforce portfolio and is already in use
under the name OpenPediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital with 420 hospitals in 78 countries on six continents.
Today, IBM is announcing that is it commercializing the IBM Social
Learning platform on SoftLayer technology to apply it across a variety
of industries, such as retail, energy and utilities, government,
healthcare and automotive. Now this unique combination of SoftLayer
assets and IBM's cloud capabilities, built on open standards, is able to
offer organizations the ability to share knowledge and expertise
through real-time videos via a hybrid cloud computing environment. For
example, doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital can share training videos
with clinicians halfway across the globe to demonstrate the latest
life-saving techniques in child care. Planned to be available in
December 2013, this new platform will be delivered as a service to
clients.
Additionally, IBM's recent acquisition of Xtify, a leading provider
of cloud-based mobile messaging tools that help organizations improve
mobile sales, drive in-store traffic and engage customers with
personalized offers, will also run on SoftLayer technology in the
future.
"We believe cloud is going to be a transformational engine that is
driving growth for our customers,” said Dennis Quan, Vice President, IBM
Cloud Infrastructure Services. IBM. “With today’s latest offerings,
IBM is continuing to move its cloud strategy forward by helping put the
tools for business innovation directly in the hands of leaders tasked
with reshaping their organization’s vision.”
SaaS Innovations for Social Engagement, Mobile Crowd-Sourcing and Retail Merchandising
Building on more than 100 SaaS applications delivered to clients
today, IBM's new SaaS offerings being rolled out today are customized to
meet the specific needs of lines of business leaders such as Chief
Marketing Officers (CMOs), Chief Human Resource Officers (CHRO) and
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) spanning all industries.
Adding to its Smarter Workforce portfolio, IBM today is also
launching the new IBM Mobile Feedback App, a cloud-based mobile
application that allows human resources professionals and line of
business executives such as sales, marketing or research to quickly plug
into the opinions and ideas of employees. Executives can use this
feedback to make informed decisions on productivity, retention rates,
and employee engagement.
Available now, a new IBM Survey Analytics application uses text and
visual analytics to automatically extract and display over one million
pieces of anonymous unstructured data derived from employee surveys,
including more than 4.2 million employee comments collected annually
through surveys conducted by Kenexa. It then provides findings via a
sentiment "heat map" of trends broken down by employee segments, which
allows executives to tap into the pulse of their organization to improve
performance and morale.
In addition to the new software and services, IBM also recently
announced the availability of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business on
SoftLayer’s industry leading infrastructure in a new Amsterdam data
center. Today more than 9,000 cloud clients, including Sika AG and
SafeGuard World International, and 75 percent of the Fortune 100 are
transforming their business operations with IBM enterprise social
software.
New additions to IBM's retail merchandising cloud include a new
capability to help multi-channel and pure play retailers increase sales
and profitability, while maintaining a competitive price
position. Merchandisers using IBM's DemandTec solutions can now benefit
from automated updates to pricing delivered online or in-store. This
new flexibility enables merchandisers to easily and rapidly respond to
competitive price changes, providing both a better customer experience
and improved control over pricing strategies.
With this release, IBM also expands its cloud capabilities for digital marketers and merchandisers with real time personalization to help organizations improve customer engagement and drive
revenue. Analyzing multiple factors, such as the products digital
consumers are browsing for and adding to their carts, the solution
provides insights. to the marketer and delivers real-time, personalized
cross-sell recommendations to the consumer. Innovations to IBM's cloud
marketing suite also include the ability to deliver promotions to
consumers when most effective such as live on the site or via email
after they've left.
New IBM Systems and Solutions for Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployments
New systems and solutions being introduced today can also help
clients and managed service providers (MSPs) build private and hybrid
clouds to get the most out of social, mobile and Big Data workloads.
These include new IBM PureFlex Systems and IBM Power Systems solutions
that provide the flexibility clients need to quickly deploy clouds and
cloud services. The PureFlex System - Express, available as a single
chassis configuration only, offers an affordable entry price point
suitable for small and midsize businesses. The PureFlex System -
Enterprise, with selectable rack offerings, is designed for scalable
cloud deployments with built-in redundancy for resilient operation. Both
systems support all Power processor and x86-based compute nodes. The
PureFlex Solution for SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure is optimized to
deliver superior performance and flexibility to meet clients’ unique
desktop virtualization business needs. IBM also announced that its
software patterns for PureApplication System, which are designed to
radically streamline the set-up and management of hardware and software
resources, can now be deployed on SoftLayer.
Additionally, new Power Systems solutions to further support hybrid
cloud environments and simplify clients’ ability to adapt to emerging
business needs at a lower cost with greater flexibility compared to
commodity servers based on decades old, PC era design. The new Power
Systems Solution Edition for Service Providers enables fast go-to-market
with a pre-built, pre-installed cloud solution based on OpenStack for
SmartCloud Entry and PowerVC. IBM PowerVC offers leading virtualization
to improve resource utilization and agility for OpenStack
implementations. The new IBM PowerVP is a virtualization performance
tool that helps clients respond to business needs faster by providing
real-time insight into their virtualization performance through
graphical display. For clients seeking open cloud environments, the new
Power Integrated Facility for Linux enables clients to better exploit
the reliability, scale and performance of enterprise class Power servers
to improve quality of service and reduce the cost of managing their
Linux ecosystem. In addition, IBM is also announcing support for
OpenStack across all models of PureApplication System, including new
models of PureApplication System on Power to enable lower entry points
starting at 32-cores.
IBM Cloud Capabilities Helps Drive Client Transformation
TienPhong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TienPhong Bank), one of the
leading banks in Vietnam, is using IBM cloud solutions to expand its
business operations, drive growth and deliver a variety of new customer
services. These capabilities are being applied to its core banking
upgrade, mobile apps and e-banking services to target the individual
consumer and bring better customer service. As a result, it has seen a
50 percent increase in the number of customers in less than one year.
Additionally, Ghanaian telecommunications provider Surfline
Communications has selected IBM cloud solutions to help expand its
mobile data services throughout the country. As a recent entrant into
the competitive telecommunications landscape in Ghana, Surfline
announced the first commercial deployment of a 4G LTE network in parts
of Western and Central Africa earlier this year. Working with IBM's
cloud capabilities, Surfline is able to provide excellent service
deliver to customers, improve operational efficiency, and increase its
return on investment.
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of open
cloud solutions that help clients build, rent or tap into cloud
capabilities. No other company has the ability to bring together unique
industry knowledge and unmatched cloud capabilities, that have already
helped more than 20,000 clients around the world. Today, IBM has more
than 100 cloud SaaS solutions, 37,000 experts with deep industry
knowledge helping clients transform and a network of more than 25 global
cloud delivery centers. Since 2007, IBM has invested more than $6
billion in acquisitions to accelerate its cloud initiatives. Most
recently IBM acquired SoftLayer with more than 21,000 clients in 140
countries to further build out its IaaS portfolio with an easy and
secure on ramp to cloud integrating IBM SmartCloud.
By: IBM News Release
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