Good article featuring an interview with IBM VP Sean Poulley, positioning the Lotus spectrum of collaboration offerings:
Looking forward, Poulley said IBM will ramp up its investments in cloud computing in 2010 and beyond, including acquisitions, new research and development and product delivery. Moreover, much like Microsoft's software-plus-services strategy of mixing SAAS with on-premise solutions, IBM also believes in a hybrid world.Link: eWeek: IBM Preps For Cloud Computing War Vs. Google, Microsoft in 2010 >
"There are trillions of dollars in invested capital in applications and infrastructure and companies aren't going to throw all of that stuff away," Poulley said. "One of the big things that's going to happen in the next year is this whole idea of hybrid, on-premise and cloud integration. I think of it in terms of extending the enterprise perimeter to the cloud."In 2010, IBM will use the cloud to create simple business processes across company firewalls. Though Poulley declined to provide specific details about this effort, he said people will hear more beginning one month from today at IBM's Lotusphere 2010. "That is going to unlock the enterprise's hesitancy to move to the cloud at a much greater pace."
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Mark Demicoli http://www.ClickBook.net | 12/24/2009 4:09:28 AM
This excites me Ed. We (ClickBook.net) have been trailblazing with Domino as a platform in the cloud space. Note that, we're in the SME Non-IT related space where IBM (as I understand) has very little focus or perceived prospect. With Domino becoming a serious commercial SAAS platform (in our view at least), I'm hoping there will be the recognition of a vast opportunity out there, in that silver lined cloud.
Best,
Mark Demicoli
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Mark Demicoli http://www.ClickBook.net | 12/24/2009 4:10:12 AM
PS. I have been approached a number of times by Microsoft reps offering 'free software' to join BizSpark.
For german readers there is an interesting debate about cloud computing in one of the rare usefull things heise has to offer (developer podcast):
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Short resume: There is a huge trust problem with this public cloud thing, because you confide your data to another company.
The barrier might be lowered if its offered in the country the company is located. Its probably easier to convince a german company to put their data in a german cloud completly embedded in german law. So IBM might benefit from partnering with german hosters or create specific entities separated from IBM.