Ibm Unveils Offerings Aimed At Secure Cloud Computing

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IBM Unveils Offerings Aimed At Secure Cloud Computing

New offerings include virtual appliance, malware scanning, and Web app firewall

Apr 23, 2009 | 12:11 PM

San Francisco, CA. April 21, 2009: Today, at the RSA Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced new services, hardware and software aimed at improving the security of cloud computing environments, helping ensure the confidentiality of data and helping locking down applications from attack.

The new security products and services arrive as recent studies from the IBM X-Force security research group revealed that criminal organizations around the globe are developing new attack techniques with alarming speed. At the same time, businesses are increasingly deploying more collaborative business models and taking advantage of new information technology (IT) infrastructures like cloud computing, virtualization and Web 2.0 which introduce new complexities for security teams. IBM's new arsenal of security products are designed to meet customers' requirements; allow businesses to take advantage of new technology paradigms by helping to address new and emerging risk; and help address the cost and complexity of important security and compliance projects - like Identity Assurance and Data Security management "through introduction of simplified security solutions.

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IBM to launch new cloud computing services this year

* One service will let developers write Web-based apps

* Another will let companies run applications over Web

* IBM plans to offer PC virtualization via cloud

By Jim Finkle

BOSTON, April 23 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) plans to launch cloud computing services this year, taking on companies such as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Google Inc (GOOG.O).

Company spokeswoman Kelly Sims said on Thursday the first of these new services will enable developers to write software that works with the emerging new technology.

Cloud computing systems run software and store information in remote, large-scale data centers that users and programmers access over the Internet.

story: http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMedi...333929920090423