March 26, 2008 -- IBM (ibm.com) announced says it will collaborate with two of America's leading academic institutions on an initiative to develop new autonomic technology for cloud computing, the company announced Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Together with The Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University, IBM is initiating this project focused on self-managing features for virtualized data centers in a cloud computing environment. This new project includes the creation of a prototype computing cloud that links data centers from the two institutions, called the Critical Enterprise Cloud Computing Services facility.
IBM says the effort is aimed at developing future technologies and training IT professionals required to enhance the performance and energy usage of computing applications while increasing productivity in the workplace.
"For future virtualized and service-oriented systems within a cloud environment, we contend that without the coordinated use of hardware, operating systems, middleware and applications, it will simply not be possible to meet the demands of tomorrow's critical applications and systems that support them," says Karsten Schwan, a representative for The Georgia Institute of Technology. "The CECCS facility will be a test-bed for modern management tools, such as those provided by IBM Tivoli, and a visible artifact for interactions with industry technology users and developers in these regions and around the world."
The joint research will combine IBM's extensive technical, autonomic computing and cloud computing expertise, Ohio State's focus on IT processes and management issues and Georgia Tech's focus on creating new technologies and methods for managing complex, dynamic and diverse distributed service-oriented systems and applications.
Over the past year, IBM has expanded its cloud computing capabilities around the world and provided cloud computing services to clients such as China Telecom, Wuxi Municipal Government of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam.
In January, IBM also released a new version of its Tivoli Provisioning Manager software to help clients operate with fewer resources and reduce manual steps to better automate the changing demands for IT resources, a key element of IBM's version of cloud computing called Blue Cloud.
