that enables the live migration of SAP applications across remote IBM
POWER6 systems via cloud computing.
The technology, developed as a part of the European
Union-fundedRESERVOIR cloud computing project, is designed to provide
companies with a range of cloud computing solutions to meet their
specific business needs.
Cloud computing is an emerging approach to shared infrastructure in
which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT
services. This approach to delivering and consuming IT provides
answers to the challenges many businesses face today: the immense
complexity of sprawling data centers, the growing cost of energy, and
the need to dynamically adapt the allocation of IT resources to
constantly changing workloads and business priorities.
In this technology demonstration, IBM and SAP show how users can run
enterprise applications in the cloud, in particular demonstrating the
migration of workloads across physical servers and across data
centers. This demonstration is another instance of IBM working with
partners across the IT industry to gain insights about creating and
configuring workloads, and help companies move to the clouds as
smoothly as possible.
"The breakthrough we're showing today is that applications can
flexibly move across remote physical servers, regardless of location
-- which makes our work a strong enabling technology for the cloud,"
explained Dr. Joachim Schaper, VP EMEA of SAP Research. "Specifically,
in cloud-scale environments, service providers will need to provide
users with access to services across the cloud. Service providers will
need to compete on performance and Quality of Service -- and so the
future cloud will need to support application mobility across
disparate data centers to enhance performance."
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