Enterprise-level cloud at no charge
From September 12 – November 11, 2011.
Signup deadline: 28 October 2011
From the webpage:
- 64-bit Copper and 32-bit Silver machines
- Virtual machines to run Linux® (Red Hat or Novell SUSE) or Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003/2008
- Select IBM software images
- 1 block (256 gigabytes) of persistent storage
For the promotional period, IBM will suppress charges for use of these services. You may terminate the promotion at any time, although we don’t think you’ll want to! At the end of the promotional period, your account will transition to a standard pay-as-you-go account at the rates effective at that time. You may elect to add on more services, including, but not limited to:
- Reserved virtual machine instances
- On-boarding support
- Premium and Advanced Premium support options
- Virtual Private Network services
- Additional images from IBM software brands, along with offerings from independent software vendors
- Access to other IBM SmartCloud data centers
- Additional services that are regularly being added to the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise offering
With these features and more, don’t miss this opportunity to try the IBM SmartCloud. With our enterprise-level servers, software and services, we offer a cloud computing infrastructure that you can approach with confidence. The IBM SmartCloud is built on the skills, experience and best practices gained from years of managing and operating security-rich data centers for enterprises and public institutions around the world.
If you want to try the cloud computing waters or IBM offerings, this could be your chance.