SAP
Apps Travel on Cloud to Reach IBM Systems
IBM and
SAP have previewed a technology that enables the live migration of SAP
applications across remote IBM POWER6 systems via cloud computing. The
technology, developed as a part of the European Union-funded RESERVOIR
cloud computing project, is designed to provide companies with different
cloud computing solutions.
Cloud
computing is an emerging approach to shared infrastructure in which
large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services.
Now,
IBM and SAP are showing how users can run enterprise applications in the
cloud, in particular migration of workloads across physical servers and
across data centers.
Today, major tech companies are exploring ways to tap the cloud
computing market. Cloud computing, or network-delivered services and
software, can save customers up to 80% on floor space and 60% on power
and cooling costs, and deliver triple asset utilization. This is
revealed by IBM, as it has introduced its
cloud computing
services.
Among
others, Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, decided to
expand its global strategic alliance with Google by offering
Force.com
for Google App Engine. It aims to accelerate developers’
productivity by connecting two cloud computing platforms.
"With
RESERVOIR, our aim is to provide cloud technologies that will enable
energy-efficient, borderless delivery of IT services driven by actual
demands -- with the goal of keeping costs competitive," said Dr. Yaron
Wolfsthal, senior manager for system technologies at IBM's Research Lab
in Haifa, Israel, where the technology was developed.
The
migration of SAP workloads across the cloud is supported by IBM's POWER6
systems, which enable users to run separate applications on different
virtual machines, called logical partitions, on the same physical
server.
The IBM
POWER6 system's Live Partition Mobility capability allows for the
movement of a partition from one POWER6-based server to another in the
data center with no application downtime, resulting in better system
utilization, improved application availability, and energy savings, says
IBM.
RESERVOIR is an IBM-led joint research initiative of 13 European
partners to develop technologies that help automate the fluctuating
demand for IT resources in a cloud computing environment.
The 17M
Euro EU-funded initiative, called RESERVOIR -- Resources and Services
Virtualization without Barriers -- explores the deployment and
management of IT services across different administrative domains, IT
platforms and geographies. This cloud computing project aims to develop
technologies to support a service-based online economy, where resources
and services are transparently provisioned and managed.
According to IDC,
spending on IT cloud services will grow to reach $42
billion by 2012. Cloud services are the consumer and business products,
services, and solutions that are delivered and consumed in real time
over the Internet.
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