IBM SmartCloud Enterprise V2.0

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise – virtual environment Version 2.0 provides rapid access to a security enhanced compute environment virtually anywhere at any time from the web.

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise – virtual environment Version 1.4, announced in Services Announcement 611-020, dated March 22, 2011, has been updated to Version 2.0 and includes the following enhancements:

• Ability to provision instances with the following operating systems: Your own OS and License
• Ability to use third-party tools to custom-build software images, allowing users to import their own virtual machine images into the IBM Cloud or create an image from a public or private catalog
• Ability to move and copy images, allowing users to transfer images across IBM SmartCloud Enterprise cloud data centers
• Ability to attach and detach storage disk dynamically (staggered availability, by data center, beginning in first quarter 2012)
• Ability to mount multiple persistent blocks of disk to an instance
• Enhanced storage location flexibility for users through self-service tools (staggered availability, by data center, beginning in first quarter 2012)
• Flexibility to select persistent storage capacity up to 10TB
• Firewall capability offered through a software image
• Utilization and billing enhancements for customer internal use charge back
• Feature enhancements to help reduce customer account management time
• Enhanced storage flexibility for users through self-service tools
• IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise object storage capability via Nirvanix, Inc., a third-party storage solution provider, providing clients with a solution designed to support millions of users, billions of objects, and exabytes of data

Planned availability date
December 5, 2011. IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise object storage capability via Nirvanix, a third-party storage solution provider, will be available January 31, 2012.

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