Computing on Demand (CoD)

December 2, 2008 by leah

IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) - the leading cloud computing enterprise solution - provides flexible computing power - by the hour, week or year, global access to CoD centers, and the security you can depend on. By off-loading transactions to CoD, you can scale your infrastructure without further capital investments helping to reduce costs and improve your competitive advantage.

Computing Capacity vs the Bottom Line
When it comes to computing power, more is usually better. More power can mean finishing projects faster, the ability to handle multiple projects at the same time, and maximizing employee productivity for greater total output. Unfortunately, like most business resources, the unlimited demand for computing capacity must be reconciled with the inflexible limitations of real-world budgets. Purchase or maintain inadequate capacity and the entire business could end up waiting for the computers to complete critical operations. On the other hand, if you end up with too much capacity the idle computing power can represent an expensive inefficiency and capital that might have been applied to other business-critical areas. So, how can you accommodate peaks and valleys in computing demand without a large, inefficient, capital investment?

Power on Tap
IBM® Computing on Demand (CoD) can give your business the power and flexibility to handle your demanding computing needs. CoD members leverage a security-rich supercomputing environment that can be used like in-house hardware, but without the capital commitment. If your computing demands exceed in-house capacity, you can shift the excess workload to CoD and use the processors that you need to meet demand. With CoD you can get the extra power that you may need and you only have to pay for the capacity that you use. Peaks and valleys may still exist, but IBM can help smooth them out.
“IBM’s Computing on Demand centers are an effective way for client’s to tap into the power of supercomputers,” said Stephen Remondi, president and CEO of Exa Corp., “when customers use our PowerFLOW® on Demand they immediately realize the value a turn-key service can have for their business."

IBM® Computing on Demand can provide your business the computing power you need, when it's needed. You can get the benefit of an in-house supercomputer without the large capital investment and maintenance expense. Computing on Demand provides:

* Scalable peak capacity - Access to large capacity that helps break the capacity barrier and can help you to:
o Support larger project sizes
o Increase the number of simultaneous projects
o Improve analysis depth and detail
o Reduce project completion times
o Maximize business throughput
* Capacity to help speed time to solution – With no infrastructure to deploy CoD helps provide access to additional capacity, to enable you to:
o Accelerate response to new business opportunities
o Improve response to project schedule challenges
o Avoid deployment delays for data center upgrades
o Improve time to productivity
* Variable cost advantages – By transforming long-term fixed costs into business-driven operational costs you may be able to:
o Leverage a pay-for use model to maximize business opportunity
o Avoid upfront capital investment and long term IT costs
o Achieve attractive ROI
o Simplify IT accounting and chargeback to projects or business units
* Superior risk management – When you only have to pay for the capacity that you need you may be able to:
o Minimize the impact of escalating power costs and constrained data center space.
o Reduce the complexity of capacity planning
o Eliminate potential excess capacity costs
o Avoid business costs caused by under capacity delays
o Reduce the need for acquisition, deployment, and upgrade cycles
o Avoid the risk of technology obsolescence
o Eliminate liability and management expense of supercomputer ownership

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