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IBM's Cloud Computing Starts With Developers

IBM tomorrow plans to announce a set of cloud computing products and services designed to help organizations develop software more efficiently.

While many businesses rely heavily on their own developers to create and refine new capabilities, their supporting infrastructure is inefficient.

"Developers are driving so much business value that the average enterprise devotes 30 to 50 percent of its entire technology infrastructure to development and test, but typically up to 90 percent of it remains idle," IBM (NYSE: IBM) said in a statement.

To IBM, the cloud provides the answer, delivering an elastic infrastructure that can meet bursts of demand from developers.

"If you go after the low hanging fruit first, you will reap almost instant benefits," Kristof Kloeckner, IBM Cloud Computing CTO, told InternetNews.com. "Our internal innovation cloud has a payback of less than three months. With our clients we have seen payback in half a year or three-quarters of a year."...

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Source: Internetnews.com