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IBM Blue Cloud Initiative Advances Enterprise Cloud Computing

Company launches new software, services, clients and partnerships

Last year, IBM rolled out Infrastructure Consulting Services for cloud computing, focused on helping clients identify and exploit opportunities for delivering services to their end-users from a cloud environment. IBM is extending those capabilities with the launch of Infrastructure Strategy and Planning for Cloud Computing. This service is composed of a strategy workshop that brings together the business and technical teams for long-term planning and readiness assessment to leverage the full power of existing assets.

In addition to this, The IBM Design and Implementation for Cloud Test Environments allows clients to build a cloud platform within their own IT environments to safely test new applications. This test cloud environment can save clients up to 20 percent on improved provisioning time, dramatically improving service while also reducing labor costs associated with creating test environments significantly. In an enterprise, one of the most common risk factors in testing new applications is human error, but because IBM's test environment cloud is built with automation and standardization, the human error factor is minimized.

In addition to the managed security services IBM offers the new IBM Rational AppScan 7.8 to helps companies ensure that the Web services they publish into the cloud are secure, compliant and meet business policies. Working together with the new IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand, this technology ensures that Web services are monitored on a continuous basis, providing IT managers with ongoing security analysis for applications deployed in the cloud.

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