IBM announces validation programme for cloud services

IBM will soon be offering a validating programme for enhancing its influence in cloud-computing. Businesses well be allowed evaluation of cloud-based services and reliability of any provider. The programme ‘Resilient Cloud Validation’ assesses cloud-based services and applications against proven and rigorous design and benchmarking guidelines. The cloud-computing providers will be required to approach IBM for participation in the programme and only successful providers will be permitted to use the IBM logo ‘Resilient Cloud’.

Cloud computing, delivers services over network, in which user does not require any infrastructure or system and sees only the network. IBM said that since cloud is subjected to recovery events, high-profile downtime and unpredictable performance, potential customers needed to be assured that computing could be trusted. Cloud computing covers storage services and enterprise applications online.

According to IBM’s General Manager of Business Continuity & Resiliency Services, Philippe Jarre, objective of every service provider is to provide uninterrupted information to their businesses. Since other businesses are powered by these providers, it creates ‘network effect’ of downtime, it is therefore critical to build high standards of resiliency.

IBM is adopting best-practice approach with the Resilient Cloud Validation Programme. According to Julian Freedman of IBM’s Emerging Technologies group, Cloud Computing was better way of doing things.
The programme would be initiated in early 2009.

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