IBM India intros entry-level private cloud offering

IBM India launch of an entry level private cloud offering, Smart Cloud Entry. “Cloud computing is much more than simply saving on Information technology implementation costs because it offers an enormous opportunity to innovate. With the IBM Smart Cloud Entry, we will enable customers to transition smoothly to a cloud based infrastructure through an easy-to-use web-based interface. The s0lution is competitively positioned for Indian company easily tap in to the benefits of cloud,” said vice president, Growth Initiatives, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India South Asia. According to the company the Smart Cloud Entry enables 0rganizations to deploy self-service provisioning of visualized w0rkloads, allowing them to start the transition to a cloud-based infrastructure. It uses a 'simple' interface, and is designed to help both entry level firms and sophisticated clients adopt private clouds from scratch or transform current virtualized systems into cloud infrastructures. "This enables rapid scalability by all0wing additional servers or blades to be added to the cloud infrastructure. includes basic workload metering to supp0rt a "pay per use" business m0del," he added. The IBM Smart Cloud Entry is part of its SmartCloud Foundation portfolio.