UPDATED 11:28 EDT / OCTOBER 29 2014

theCUBE Live At IBM Insight 2014 NEWS

IBM takes its hybrid cloud to a new level with more interoperability, data services

theCUBE Live At IBM Insight 2014

theCUBE Live At IBM Insight 2014

IBM rolled out a string of new products at its Insight 2014 conference in Las Vegas intended to help organizations make more out of their data wherever it resides, be it on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform or behind the corporate firewall. Laying the foundation for the push is the addition of more configuration options that allow cloud customers to pick and choose the hardware upon which their hosted OpenStack deployments run.

That extra flexibility is aimed at addressing the logistics of enabling interoperability among on- and off-premise implementations, which extends far beyond merely making it possible to move workloads back and forth. Providing users with the freedom to specify not only the type and size of their environments but also the underlying infrastructure can make it easier to reconcile core details such as service levels with private environments on case-by-case basis, granularity that mainstream rivals such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) don’t provide.

To help customers take advantage of that mobility, IBM is rolling out an on-premise edition of Cloudant, the hosted document database it obtained as part of the acquisition of the startup of the same name earlier this year. Joining the offering is a pair of complementary analytical services that offer users more options in how they ingest their information. The first is dashDB, a hosted data warehouse integrated with Cloudant that – continuing the hybrid cloud theme- is based on Big Blue’s on-premise Netezza column store.

With its support for in-memory processing, the offering is meant to level the playing field against AWS, which also provides a data warehouse in the form of Redshift. Rounding out the launch is DataWorks, a suite of services designed to automate the notoriously time-consuming and error-prone process of preparing information for analysis that is based on another one of IBM’s time-honed on-premise solutions, CastIron. Unlike dashDB, it’s not matched by AWS, at least not yet, giving Big Blue a much-needed advantage over its more entranced rival.

To top all of that off, the enterprise stalwart is is bringing several other of its core data management solutions to the cloud too, namely the Cognos Business Intelligence suite and SPSS predictive analytics toolkit. The software will be available through the firm’s recently launched service marketplace, joining cloud-native solutions such as the newly introduced Watson Analytics and Watson Explorer.

But IBM is not stopping there. Besides expanding the depth of its cloud platform, the vendor is broadening its reach as well with the inauguration of a new data center in Mumbai. The expansion comes as part of the vendor’s $1.2 billion plan to add 15 more cloud facilities by the end of the year, which has already seen it set up shop in London, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other strategic locations around the world. The goal is to eliminate the need for international organizations to move their data to foreign jurisdictions in order to take advantage of the cloud while cutting latency at the same time.


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