In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about the advantages of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, a workload optimized cloud that combines infrastructure and platform capabilities and supports multiple hypervisors – including KVM.
Requirements for public and private cloud provisioning have similarities, but there are also key differences. All cloud providers, whether private or public, are concerned with availability and security. But public cloud providers have the added requirement to remain flexible to meet a wide range of customer deployment needs, while at the same time, keeping a firm grip on costs both to remain competitive as well as to ensure their own profitability. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning which was designed specifically in terms of infrastructure-as-a-service can play a role in all of those areas and provide additional capabilities with rapid composite application deployments. Rather than requiring service providers to build a cloud from scratch using virtualization management tools, IBM SmartCloud Provisioning offers a high-scale, low-touch cloud provisioning system. It is a hypervisor-agnostic, infrastructure-as-a-service solution enabling fast, automated cloud provisioning, parallel scalability, integrated fault tolerance and a foundation for more advanced cloud capabilities. In addition, the private cloud environment offers near-zero downtime and automated recovery from hardware and software failures across heterogeneous platforms … read on