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Now an Appliance will Deliver Cloud Services

The new IBM appliance will deliver enterprise cloud services. It’s claimed to be the first of its kind hardware plus new software to accelerate application deployment. The offerings are: IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition. 

The two new products will allow users to extend their investment in service-oriented architecture (SOA) into a cloud services environment. They’ll also enable them to create application environments that can be deployed and managed in a "private cloud" and include: 

IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance: It’s a new hardware appliance that provides access to software virtual images and patterns that can be used as is or easily customized, and then securely deployed, managed, and maintained in a private cloud.

IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition: It’s a version of IBM WebSphere Application Server software optimized to run in a virtualized hardware server environments such as VMware, and comes preloaded in WebSphere Cloudburst. 

"The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance combines the flexibility of SOA with the adaptability of the cloud," said Tom Rosamilia, general manager of WebSphere at IBM. "Its new capabilities for rapid deployment deliver a fast return on investment to our clients." 

As part of its public cloud initiatives, IBM is also announcing BPM BlueWorks, a cloud-based set of strategy and business process tools. BPM BlueWorks, according to IBM, provides business users with the collateral they need to implement business strategies within their organizations based on business process management techniques. 

The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition are available in the second quarter of 2009.

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