Originally posted by: TonyPearson

IBM announced that it will offer [three free months of IBM Smart Business Cloud] computing and storage services to government agencies, charitable non-profit organizations, and other organizations involved with reconstruction resulting from the earthquakes and tsunami in Japan and the northern Pacific region.

With traditional communications down, and many data centers incapacitated, Cloud Computing can be a great way to resume operations. According to the announcement, organizations can submit their requests now until April 30, and the program will run until July 31, 2011. Options include:

• Virtual machine images running 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Linux or Windows.
• 60GB to 2 TB of disk storage per instance.
• Options for various IBM middleware (DB2, Informix, Lotus, and WebSphere)
• Rational Application Lifecycle Management and Tivoli Monitoring software

The offer also includes [LotusLive] Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for email and online collaboration. For more about LotusLive, see this [Red Paper].

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