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IBM Research and SAP Demonstrate New Cloud Technology: Real-Time Application Mobility

HANNOVER, GERMANY – 02 Mar 2009: In a joint demonstration at CeBIT, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP (XETRA: SAP.DE) previewed a technology 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-funded RESERVOIR 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.

It’s great to see IBM further the Cloud movement and ilustrate the possibilities. How cool would it be if we migrate the application around the infrastructure as and when the infrastructure or the application require it? That I could move the billing system to full overnight, but have it hosted on the grid or a virtual machine during the day? Anything that cloud and grid type solutions can do to aid application migration, to allow organizations to be more efficient and effective with their IT has to be a good thing.

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