贝瑞·莱文
2014年7月2日 上午10：59
导言：美国国际商用机器公司（IBM）最新发布的由SoftLayer创建的云导航系统，实现了“之前市场上没有满足的客户需求，它提供了一种新型服务模式，即将公司安全等级、管理制度、整合效应和移动互联应用结合起来，这样一来，使得相互交流和使用变得更加容易，”IBM公司数据管理部总经理道格·亨特如是说。
IBM 带着其最新研发的基于云计算的大数据服务与公众见面了。周二，这一技术巨头发布言论，说它提供的这一服务叫做“IBM 云计算导航”，可使公司内部的数据状况一目了然。
IBM公司称，企业每天会产生大约25亿千兆字节的数据，其中80%的数据是由非结构性的合同、索赔、批准应用以及社交媒体数据构成。要利用这些数据，企业就需要引进大量的资源。
IBM公司还说，这一项新的服务将使得技术工作人员可以更有效地与数据实时同步，并可使数据在任何浏览器、台式机或者移动终端上使用。目前，云计算导航已经在IBM云计算商店投入使用，由IBM SoftLayer 云计算平台研发，为熟悉数据管理工具的用户提供企业数据管理服务。
“未被满足的需求”
IBM 举例说，移动终端的其中一个领域的维护工程师可以为设备绘制最新的图表，拍摄部分照片来为修理服务，升级修理文件，并将所有这些进程与云计算导航进行同步交流，这样，其他移动终端的维护者就可以直接使用这些数据。
IBM公司数据管理部总经理道格·亨特在一次声明中说道，这项服务实现了“之前市场上没有满足的客户需求，它提供了一种新型服务模式，即将公司安全等级、管理制度、整合效应和移动互联应用结合起来，这样一来，使得相互交流和使用变得更加容易。”他还说，用户借此可以得到一种“简易的学习、尝试以及购买体验。”
行业研究公司点技术协会的分析师罗杰·凯告诉我们，IBM在创建云计算使用能力时“使用SoftLayer作为他们的传输层。”他说，这项服务“并不完全是新型的，因为它也只是采用大数据为SoftLayer服务而已。”
去年的七月，IBM就已经宣布和SoftLayer达成协议，要收购这家大型的云计算服务提供商。
伦敦数据中心
上周，IBM宣称SoftLayer在伦敦开办了数据中心。这是SoftLayer在世界范围内开办的第15个数据中心，它花费了12亿美元就是为了在欧洲和全球范围内提供云计算服务。这个新的数据中心可以处理多达15,000 个服务器的数据，可以满足一个国家以内的所有居民的数据使用要求，例如，英国商业管理中所有公司保留敏感性数据的硬性规定。
同样，出于云计算技术前沿的IBM周三宣布，它已经研发出了最新的云计算连接软件版本5，新版本以社交软件为基础，可以同时连通企业内部和外部，使两者更好地合作。新版本提供了集数据整合、分析。数据管理工具、文件同步以及文件共享的服务。国际数据资讯公司（IDC）已经将IBM公司列为世界市场上企业软件提供领导者。
IBM Launches Cloud-based Big data Service
By Barry Levine
July 2, 2014 10:59AM
The new Navigator on Cloud by IBM, built on SoftLayer, fulfills "an unmet need in the marketplace by providing a new service that combines enterprise grade security, governance and integration with mobile and Web apps that are easy to interact with and use," said Doug Hunt, general manager of Enterprise Content Management at IBM.
IBM is out with a new big data service for the cloud. The tech giant said on Tuesday its service, called IBM Navigator on Cloud, will allow business content to be more usable across the enterprise.
The company noted that an estimated 2.5 billion gigabytes of data are generated every day by companies, with 80 percent being composed of such unstructured content as contracts, claims forms, permit applications and social media. To utilize this data, companies need to access a variety of sources.
The new service, IBM said, will allow knowledge workers to more effectively collaborate by synchronizing content and making it available from any browser, desktop or mobile device. Navigator on Cloud, available in the IBM Cloud Marketplace and built on the company's SoftLayer cloud platform, offers Enterprise Content Management capabilities to users who are generally familiar with content management tools.
The new service, IBM said, will allow knowledge workers to more effectively collaborate by synchronizing content and making it available from any browser, desktop or mobile device. Navigator on Cloud, available in the IBM Cloud Marketplace and built on the company's SoftLayer cloud platform, offers Enterprise Content Management capabilities to users who are generally familiar with content management tools.
'Unmet Need'
As an example, IBM noted that a field maintenance worker on a mobile device can call up the latest schematics for a piece of equipment, take photos of a part in need of repair, updata repair document, and synchronize all of this back to the cloud for other workers on other mobile devices to use immediately.
Doug Hunt, general manager of Enterprise Content Management at IBM, said in a statement that the service fulfills "an unmet need in the marketplace by providing a new service that combines enterprise grade security, governance and integration with mobile and Web apps that are easy to interact with and use." Users, he said, get a "simple and easy experience to learn, try, and buy."
Roger Kay, an analyst with industry research firm Endpoint Technologies Associates, noted for us that IBM is "using SoftLayer as their delivery layer," as they build up their cloud capabilities. He said the service "isn't entirely new, as it's adapting a big data service for SoftLayer."
One year ago this month, IBM announced it had entered into an agreement to buy SoftLayer Technologies, a large cloud computing infrastructure provider.
London data Center
Last week, the company announced that SoftLayer is opening a data center in London. This is number 15 of the data centers the company has opened worldwide, as it spends $1.2 billion to extend its cloud services in Europe and worldwide. The new center, which can handle up to 15,000 physical servers, offers services that meet in-country data residency requirements, such as regulated businesses in the UK that need to keep sensitive data physically in the country.
Also on the cloud front, IBM announced Wednesday the latest version 5 of its Connections cloud and on-premises socialsoftware for connecting and collaborating inside and outside of organizations. The new version offers an integrated suite,analytics, content management tools, file sync and document sharing. IBM has been ranked by IDC as the global market share leader for enterprise social software.
