IBM Services Help Double-up Cloud Profits

IBM launched its CloudBurst pre-configured server infrastructure back in June 2009, but is just now launching the companion QuickStart services to speed up the deployment of the blade servers and systems software it consists of. According to this report on The Register, companies like IBM are trying to make money twice with clouds: first by selling preconfigured clouds for inside the corporate firewall and then selling services to help setup and monitor the cloudy infrastructure and train people on how to use it properly.

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"The base CloudBurst setup is a 42U standard server rack which has a System x3650 M2 two-socket Xeon 5500 server with 48GB of memory installed as a management server for the cloud. Multiple BladeCenter-H chassis can be slid into the rack, but the base box comes with one chassis configured with four HS22 Xeon-based blades. One of the blades is designated as a management blade and the three others are for running virtualized server instances.

"The BladeCenter-H can house 14 blades (13 usable by CloudBurst workloads) and three of them can be crammed into the rack, for a total of 39 usable blades. IBM also tosses in DS4300 midrange storage arrays that link to the HS22 blades by Fibre Channel links, which eats up some space in the rack."

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