Cloudshield, IBM put DPI on Blade Center

IBM is developing an ecosystem for its BladeCenter PN41 that is intended to provider telecom service providers with a choice of partners and providers in a more open approach to mixing and matching best-of-breed technology, as opposed to being locked into proprietary solutions more traditional in the CO environment. Initially, CloudShield’s Subscriber Services Manager, DNS Defender application and open development environment are part of that ecosystem.

“There are three classes of applications empowered by this blade and the CloudShield software,” Scull said. “The first is infrastructure security – for DNS servers, routers, core network equipment, making sure it stays up. The second is services management – understanding how users are using bandwidth and taking optimal advantage of the bandwidth you have today. And the third is empowering new services. Service providers are under incredible pressure to figure out new revenue streams. The blade can be a platform for empowering service providers to roll out new managed services and pulling stuff that subscribers did themselves into the cloud – like firewalls, parental controls, content-cleaning, anti-spam, etc.”