IBM adds Elastic Storage to its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure

IBM transformation of the way that the cloud storage makes. Download to approximately $ 1.2 million required to take 90 percent savings for the establishment of information centers income of the country where they are needed, Big Blue now offers a new way, hardware / software / hybrid cloud storage and user a cube.

The key to all this is new storage-as-a-Service software from IBM defines the elastic cloud storage so-called. This is a new feature, Soft Layer, IBM acquired the company last year, and their technology is now the basis for their efforts in the cloud provides. The new capacity is expected to be a consequence of the system of data management Watson, the famous ass kicked humanity in the game of Jeopardy television TV.Elastic Storage is basically a rebranded GPFS, and the service offers the following:

• SoftLayer bare metal resources
• High performance data management
• InfiniBand link to and between clustered servers
• Movement of data between customer’s on-premises infrastructure and the cloud

Customers can take advantage of the connections of direct links between IBM and points of presence, SoftLayer data centers provide dedicated private connections. It is likely that the availability of these will run as IBM provides SoftLayer's data centers worldwide, although the methods of access to Ford Transit vans (FTVAL) is likely to be faster and more cost-effective when it comes to load up very large amounts of data.
IBM says elastic cloud support has been optimized for analytic workloads and technical tasks, such as credit risk management, financial analysis, genomics, scientific research and seismic processing computer.  

She adds that customers to fully support cluster-ready to run complete with elastic storage, IBM Platform LSF and Platform Symphony software management workload and bare metal SoftLayer infrastructure to implement their applications.Although IBM claims the cost savings, a quick look at prices makes eyes water. The service starts at a whopping $ 13,735 per 100 TB per month. Compare that with SoftLayer shop prices of items, starting at $ 0.04/GB/month - or $ 4,096 for 100 TB per month after our rusty math. However, the additional fee of 9k or so you get the full support, software licenses and access to SoftLayer's infrastructure..