Cloud bursting with host factory

The host factory framework for cloud bursting leverages the on-demand capabilities of cloud infrastructure for your on-premises cluster. With host factory, you can seamlessly extend your cluster infrastructure to include compute hosts from the cloud to handle the demands of excess workload. Your cluster dynamically grows or shrinks, supporting a hybrid mix of on-premises and cloud hosts, based on the resource demands of applications that run in the cluster.

Host factory is available with IBM® Spectrum Conductor on Linux® and Linux on POWER® operating systems.

Host factory can provision compute hosts from cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Cloud (previously SoftLayer®), and Microsoft Azure.