Success in the cloud: Why workload matters

Its own migration to cloud computing allowed IBM to dramatically reduce IT support costs and major improvements in workplace efficiency, and resource use, accelerate innovation, and improve service and support delivery.

The company implemented cloud internally across six fundamental IT workloads: development and test, analytics, storage, collaboration, desktop and production application workloads. The company has seen impressive improvements in efficiency, combined with savings in capital costs and operations. In addition IBM found in their own - and other internal cloud implementations - that the workloads selected for migration to the cloud have a significant impact on cloud's ability to be a transformative tool for business.

Learn more in "Success in the cloud: Why workload matters", a thought leadership white paper from the IBM Office of the CIO, that presents IBM's own observations and recommendations with respect to with respect to workload affinity and cloud computing.

Download and read "Success in the cloud: Why workload matters".

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