This is a question from the October 20 GWC webcast titled "Quickly Develop, Deploy, Provision, and Manage Your Applications for Enhanced Workload Performance with New Announcements from IBM WebSphere".

What is the difference between CloudBurst vs Workload Deployer?

With Cloudburst you get a total cloud solution not generally specific to WebSphere.  With IWD (IBM Workload Deployer) formerly WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance (WCA) you get an appliance that deployes the IBM product stack into the cloud with best practices and ready to go.  IWD deployes WebSphere, DB2 and others into the cloud ready to run.  It's very helpful when you have a lot of WAS environments to build.  It's dependant on vCenter or System Director depending on your infrastructure.  I have a presention on my profile on WCA that I did at Impact last year, feel free to downlaod it.

IBM® Workload Deployer is a hardware appliance that provides access to IBM middleware virtual images and patterns to more easily, quickly and repeatedly create application environments that can be published and managed in a security-rich private cloud.

This product works seamlessly with IBM WebSphere® Application Server Hypervisor Edition, which is optimized to run in virtualized hardware server environments including IBM z/VM®, IBM PowerVM® on IBM AIX® and VMware ESX.

IBM Workload Deployer:

• Reduces costs by helping you deploy, manage and maintain application environments in a security-rich private cloud.


• Increases agility and time to value by providing virtual images and patterns that can speed application deployment and reduce setup time for IBM WebSphere environments.


• Reduces risk and increases repeatability by incorporating more than 10 years of management experience for cost-effective, rapid and repeatable application deployment.


• Optimizes administration within virtualized infrastructure.


• Enhances security throughout the entire infrastructure lifecycle