IBM to deliver Cloud Software thru Amazon

IBM has tapped Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to deliver software to clients and developers under a new pay-as-you-go model. The agreement will let Big Blue's clients access IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash, and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system in the cloud.

With immediate effect, IBM will provide software developers with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) without charge for development and test purposes. In the coming months, IBM intends to launch full production software images in beta, and eventually extend its cloud-computing portfolio to include service-management capabilities from IBM Tivoli software.

According to Dave Mitchell, director of strategy and emerging business at the IBM Software Group, “This relationship with Amazon Web Services provides our customers with a new way to use IBM software and broadens our distribution channels”.

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