IBM Tweet Chat Today: The Economics Of IT – What It Means In The New Age Of The Cloud and Big Data
I am moderating an IBM tweetchat that starts in just a few minutes at 10 a.m. PST. The topic: “The Economics of IT – Cost and Benefits of Integrated Systems.” Follow the hashtag #ExpertSysChat to participate.
There is a debate about the relationship between the cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the solutions oriented offerings that you see from IBM. I expect we will discuss this to some extent today.
Last week I wrote a post about what a platform as a service (PaaS) means to IBM and why I think it is off base when the company uses this term to describe its PureSystems technology. I expect we will get into that discussion today. I spoke yesterday with an IBM executive who convinced me that PureSystems has aspects of a PaaS. I look forward to them explaining their position in the discussion.
Here are some of the questions we will ask participants:
- What are the biggest obstacles in enterprise hardware/software deployments, and the primary drains on IT budgets?
- What facets of adopting new enterprise IT solutions are proving to be most cost prohibitive?
- What is the cost of not considering an integrated approach within corporate IT environments?
Those are IBM’s questions. I will have a few of my own, which I will save for the tweetchat.
Hope to see you there.
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Sorry IBM – A Big Box Is Not A Platform As A Service
In April, IBM rolled out a big new machine called IBM PureApplication Systems, a member of the PureSystems technology family.
At the time, I called IBM out for calling it a “PaaS in a Box.” It reminded me of Larry Ellison calling Oracle’s hardware a “cloud-in-a-box” back in 2010. Well, IBM is continuing its PaaS washing. Krishnan Subramanian just tweeted about a new IBM post that went up today that’s titled:”Open 24x7x365: The IBM open PaaS and private cloud platform.”
Pure Systems technology is IBM’s version of a converged infrastructure. It’s designed for implementation inside an enterprise data center. It’s a big box technology with converged compute, storage and networking. It’s based on patterns technology, meaning knowledge about all aspects of building. deploying and managing applications is hardened into the expert integrated system. Patterns come from the knowledge developed through customer engagements and IBM’s vast experience in building out data centers.
It combines development and virtualization environments into one box. It gives the customer optimization, consolidation, a central place for apps to run with the elasticity that “cloud” provides.
In yesterday’s post, IBM’s Michael Maximilien describes it as follows:
Essentially, the IBM PureSystems offering combines an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) substrate with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer that also provides means to codify workload components into patterns. With these patterns, users can effectively deploy workloads and applications in a predictable and repeatable fashion.
This view is counter to the definition of a PaaS. A true PaaS is a cloud computing service that removes the complexity required for developers to build their own software stacks. As Wikipedia points out, the provider provides the networks, servers and storage.
In April, Krishnan pointed out why it makes no sense to call PureSystems a PaaS. Think if you wanted to develop a new cloud centric app. Would you need a powerful integrated solution like PureSystems? No. You’d want to deploy across a distributed environment.
Instead, IBM Pure Systems is suitable for consolidating data centers and running legacy apps. But to call it a PaaS is a real stretch.
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