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

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Abstract. High performance business and technical computing helps 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.

Proven cloud or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) computing solutions such as IBM’s Computing on Demand (CoD) are very attractive for many commercial enterprises especially in today’s environment of flat or shrinking IT budgets. With a spectrum of flexible offerings and pricing models, IBM’s CoD solution provides secure, affordable, elastic, and risk-free access to IT infrastructure resources for companies that need to quickly scale-up or scale-down their IT needs to adapt to their business demands.

Through IBM client interviews across several industries and other industry and workload analyses, this paper examines the benefits and costs of IBM’s CoD offering for high performance business and technical computing versus other non-cloud alternatives.

This cost-benefit analysis demonstrates the advantages of the IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) cloud solution. While the TCO savings with the CoD solution are substantial ranging from 30% for dedicated CoD to 69% for dynamic CoD, the three IBM customer case studies exemplify the business benefits of new capability, faster time to results, and a new innovative business model – an IBM CoD triple play.

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