Comments on: The GigaOM Interview: Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of IBM Cloud Computing

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By: vinod

vinod — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:46:22 +0000

I think cost is not just the only factor towards migrating to cloud & IBM is thinking on those terms of manageability, monitoring & cloud provisioning which most public cloud vendors lack. Also enterprise side cloud migration is picking up & im sure most are thinking in terms of doing a charge back process & support all internal customers. Virtualization has made it easy to share & antomate the workloads to scale up or down but stack over these virtualization solutions those provide the automation & management are the key to a successfull virtualized environment.

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By: Should Servers and Networking Come From a Single Source?

Should Servers and Networking Come From a Single Source? — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:06:52 +0000

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By: Alex Popescu

Alex Popescu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:19:28 +0000

Not sure why my first comment didn’t got thru, so I’m trying reposting it.
The IBM announcement is a bit confusing as it looks like they are selling virtualization enabled equipments. While virtualization may be related to the cloud, IMO they are not quite equivalent.
On the other hand, one of the main principles of the cloud is that you don’t need specific assumptions as the cloud will scale up and down with almost linear costs. The IBM offer is based on an initial assumption about the workload which to me seems to contradict the whole cloud idea.

./alex
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By: Alex Popescu

Alex Popescu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:22:16 +0000

I must confess that I’m still a bit puzzled by this ‘announcement’. My impression is that IBM is offering equipments prepared for virtualization, which may be connected to cloud, but not necessarily.
One of the main assumptions of cloud computing is that you don’t need to use any assumptions before hand as the solution will allow you to scale up and down with almost linear costs. Well, IBM offering starts based on the workload assumption and this contradicts the notion of cloud.

./alex

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BotchagalupeMarks for June 16th - 12:46 | IT Management and Cloud Blog — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:25:04 +0000

[...] The GigaOM Interview: Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of IBM Cloud Computing – The offering seems like a crippled compromise between the scalability and flexibility that true computing clouds offers and what enterprises seem to be demanding when it comes to controlling their own infrastructure. I spoke today with the chief technology officer of IBM’s cloud computing division, Kristof Kloeckner, to learn more. Below is an edited account of our talk. [...]

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:10:33 +0000

@ Bob … Like Appistry’s platform, perhaps? ;-)

Anyhow, IBM corrected me regarding CloudBurst. That is a prepackaged, fully virtualized blade rack designed for private cloud initiatives. Here are the specs:

– Base Hardware Configuration:

* 1 42U rack
* 1 BladeCenter Chassis
* 1 3650M2 Management Server, 8 cores, 24GB Ram
* 1 HS22 CloudBurst Management Blade, 8 cores, 48GB RAM
* 3 managed HS22 blades, 8 cores, 48GB RAM
* DS3400 FC attached storage

– Cloud Software Configuration:

* IBM CloudBurst service management pack
* IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager v7.1
* IBM Tivoli Monitoring v6.2.1
* IBM Systems Director 6.1.1 with Active Energy Manager; IBM ToolsCenter 1.0; IBM DS Storage Manager for DS4000 v10.36; LSI SMI-S provider for DS3400
* VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 U4; VMware ESXi 3.5 U4 hypervisor

The price tag of around $220K seems a little steep, but the monthly payment does include hardware, management software and hypervisor. Networking will be added to the stack in future incarnations. So IBM is offering an internal cloud platform on top of the services, which have been getting most of the attention.