Confronting the Data Center Crisis: A Cost - Benefit Analysis of the IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) Cloud Offering

Keywords: Data Center, Computing On Demand, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, Total Cost of Ownership
Authors: Srini Chari, Cabot Partners.
Abstract:
High performance analytics help companies achieve the speed, agility, and insights to lead the market and together with new web workloads will drive data centers to add more capacity. But the escalating energy and operational costs of building and maintaining data centers will compel companies to adopt secure cloud computing models. The cost-benefit analysis in this paper, demonstrates the advantages of the IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) cloud solution. While the TCO savings with the CoD solution are substantial, the three IBM customer case studies exemplify the business benefits of new capability, faster time to results, and flexible business models – an IBM CoD triple play.