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SaaS: IBM Takes on Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

IBM has launched a series of products that are now delivered via the web. These so-called cloud services target companies of all sizes and are meant to help companies free up resources and to achieve better value from their in-house IT infrastructure.

IBM’s cloud offering has four parts:
– Offer software applications built by IBM
– Work with ISVs to create services opportunities around the cloud infrastructure
– Work with clients to integrate cloud services
– Offer basic cloud infrastructure for others to build on

To support the initiative, IBM has opened 13 globally-located Cloud Computing Centers and 40 IBM Innovation Centers to testing cloud-delivered applications.
The IBM applications include:
– Bluehouse, a social networking and collaboration cloud service
– A service to automatically scan web content to test for privacy, quality, and accessibility issues
– A service to scan for web application security weaknesses

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