Tools and services designed to help businesses deploy new
applications across hybrid cloud environments with security and
efficiency
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.
12, 2019 /CNW/ -- IBM Think -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced new
hybrid cloud offerings to help businesses migrate, integrate and
manage applications and workloads seamlessly and with security
across any public or private cloud and on-premises IT
environment.
The IBM Institute for Business Value estimates that by
2021, 98 percent of organizations surveyed plan to adopt hybrid
architectures, but just 38 percent will have the procedures and
tools they need to operate that environment1. The
process today is challenging because it is largely manual with
major security implications and a lack of consistent management and
integration tools.
As part of today's news, IBM is launching new hybrid cloud tools
and services designed to help enterprises navigate the complexities
of this new landscape:
- New IBM Cloud Integration Platform designed to reduce time and
complexity to launch new services and applications across
cloud environments in a consistent and secure manner.
- New IBM Services designed to advise on holistic cloud
strategies.
- New IBM Services designed to simplify the management of
resources across cloud environments.
- New services designed to provide industry-leading security for
data and applications in the public cloud.
"At Aetna, a CVS Health business, we see hybrid cloud as an
integral part of our transformation journey," said Claus Torp Jensen, Chief Technology Officer,
Aetna. "We want to use the best services from various cloud
providers to create a seamless consumer experience and digitalize
underlying business processes. For that, we are taking an
API-centric approach to integration and making sure that all of our
APIs are easily accessible across our hybrid cloud ecosystem."
New Cloud Integration Platform Designed to Dramatically
Reduce Coding Time, Complexity
The IBM Cloud Integration Platform is designed to securely
connect applications, software and services from any vendor
regardless of whether those systems are on-premises, in a public
cloud or a private cloud. The platform brings together a
comprehensive set of integration tools in a single development
environment. It can help improve productivity because integration
specialists can write, test and secure code once, store it in the
platform and reuse it – an arduous task that once monopolized their
time. This can help companies cut the time and cost of integration
by 1/3, while staying within their unique requirements for security
and compliance2.
Integration is critical as enterprises optimize business
processes and create more personalized customer experiences.
However, integration is becoming increasingly complex because many
enterprises surveyed are already using between two to 15 different
clouds and want to deploy new cloud services such as AI,
analytics and blockchain to stay ahead of the
competition3.
With the IBM Cloud Integration Platform, companies can quickly
bring to market new capabilities while freeing up integration
specialists to focus on the more complex, system-level
integrations.
"Most large organizations have data and workloads spread across
multiple public and private clouds, SaaS and on-premises
environments – sometimes as a result of their business process
infrastructure, but also for compliance, regulatory and data
privacy reasons," said Denis
Kennelly, general manager, cloud integration, IBM. "The
challenge in this environment is to overcome data and technology
siloes to quickly deploy new business services and applications
with security. Today, we are launching new capabilities designed to
help unleash the full power of the hybrid cloud."
Learn more about the new IBM Cloud Integration Platform by
visiting: www.ibm.com/cloud/integration/platform
New End-To-End IBM Hybrid Cloud Services
IBM is launching new IBM Services for Cloud Strategy and Design,
a comprehensive set of services designed to advise clients on how
to architect the right holistic cloud strategy from design,
migration, integration, road mapping and architectural services to
navigating their journey to cloud.
IBM Services is establishing dedicated teams of consultants who are
certified experts in the latest services and technologies across
multiple cloud platforms. Teams will use open and secure
multicloud strategies, drawing upon IBM's experience in IT
transformation and collaboration with an ecosystem of cloud
partners. The new services leverage IBM's industry-leading Cloud
Innovate method, automated decision accelerators and IBM Cloud
Garage approach to support clients with co-creation and scaled
innovation in application development, migration, modernization and
management.
Building off of a recent partnership expansion announcement
with ServiceNow, IBM is also introducing new IBM Services for
Multicloud Management to provide a single system to help
enterprises simplify the management of their IT resources across
multiple cloud providers, on-premises environments and private
clouds.
The delivery of IBM Services for Multicloud Management includes
three layers designed to provide a single management and operations
system:
- Business management – applications that provide digital
service ordering, modern service management, and cost governance to
help manage spend;
- Orchestration – an automation layer that helps enable
services of different types, from different vendors to be
integrated easily and made available to consumers;
- Operations - a layer that helps enable infrastructure
and operations administrators to monitor and maintain systems,
including legacy infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud and
container environments.
In addition, it includes a unified, self-service experience to
users to facilitate faster and easier access to cloud services via
an environment integrated with the ServiceNow Portal to configure
and buy cloud services and solutions from multiple cloud providers.
It also provides performance management services and offers the
means to monitor and manage the health of the cloud.
"As we grow our digital business, moving our applications to the
cloud is critical to help modernize our processes and deliver even
better experiences for our customers. Adopting the right strategy
and migration approach to cloud needs to be seamless and requires
an understanding of our IT landscape," said Sarp Uzkan, vice president, IT, Tribune
Publishing. "IBM cloud advisory services and tools provided a
detailed assessment that determined not only which applications
would be best to move to the cloud but a strong business case that
would meet our needs and enabling us to explore the best approach
for moving to the cloud."
Learn more about the new IBM Services by visiting:
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2019/02/12/new-ibm-services-multicloud-world/
Industry-Leading Security for Data and Applications in the
Public Cloud
Security remains a top concern across all industries and markets
when deploying apps and data in hybrid cloud environments. In order
to minimize threats, enterprises need to the ability to protect
data at every stage of its journey, easily manage access and
identity and gain visibility into the security posture for all of
their applications.
IBM is launching the IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Service,
which is designed to provide industry-leading security on the
public cloud and is made possible by bringing IBM LinuxONE into
IBM's global cloud data centers. This service will provide
encryption key management with a dedicated cloud hardware security
module (HSM) built on the only FIPS 140-2 level 4-based technology
offered by a public cloud provider4.
This is part of the IBM Cloud Hyper Protect family of services,
which is already providing enterprises like DACS and Solitaire
Interglobal with industry-leading security and resiliency for their
applications. To provide high levels of security across both public
and private clouds, IBM is also announcing significant enhancements
to IBM Cloud Private on Z.
Learn more about IBM's new capabilities in cloud security by
visiting: https://ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2019/02/cloud-security-right/
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Enterprise-Scale Modern Applications for Hybrid Cloud
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Footnotes
1. IBM Institute for Business Value:
Assembling Your Cloud Orchestra,
October 2018
2. Based on customer experience and Total Economic Impact
methodology developed by Forrester Research, Inc. (The Total
Economic Impact of an API Management Solution, February 2017)
3. IBM Institute for Business Value: Assembling Your Cloud Orchestra, October 2018
4. Currently available in beta, planned for general availability
March 2019
Media Contact:
Sarah
Murphy
IBM Media Relations
srmurphy@us.ibm.com
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