ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced that clients in highly
regulated industries, including Aegean Airlines, BNP Paribas, Elaw
Tecnologia SA and Home Trust, are selecting IBM Cloud as their
preferred destination for mission-critical workloads.
IBM also announced new capabilities that make its public cloud
the industry's most secure and open cloud for business,
including:
- The industry's only commercially available state-of-art
cryptographic technology for the cloud called "Keep Your Own
Key."1 This gives enterprises the ability to retain
control of their own encryption keys -- and the hardware security
modules that protect them -- so customers are the only ones who can
control access to their data.
- Increased bandwidth for its next-gen virtual servers on the
cloud up to 80 Gbps, making the IBM public cloud hyperscale-ready.
Designed so enterprises can access IBM public cloud services and
scale their networks quicker than ever before, all within a
controlled, secured environment that is suited for sensitive
workloads.
- An expansion of IBM's global cloud data center footprint with
new multizone regions (MZR) planned for Toronto, Canada and Osaka, Japan by the end of 2020, building on
the recently announced MZR in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. These regions will help clients quickly deploy
mission-critical workloads and applications across hybrid cloud
environments, and gain access to a consistent set of IBM public
cloud services – from enterprise-grade infrastructure to AI
services.
- The same IBM Power Systems technology behind the world's
smartest supercomputers, Summit and Sierra, is expected to be
available for select geographies by the end of 2019 in the IBM
Cloud giving organizations a new, powerful option to begin
developing and training their AI applications. IBM's support of Red
Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems reinforces our commitment to
clients to provide a flexible, secure and open, hybrid multicloud
platform for their workloads.
- New features to be made available for IBM Security Advisor to
detect security misconfigurations so companies can better assess
their security postures and take corrective actions.
IBM reported last week that its cloud business generated more
than $20 billion dollars in revenue
over the last 12 months. Today's news complements IBM's existing
cloud offerings for private and on-premises environments –
including those from recently-acquired Red Hat – enabling the
company to provide comprehensive, open multicloud hybrid
solutions.
"Open architectures, based on Kubernetes and containers, are
driving the next wave of cloud-based innovation. That's why IBM has
just completed a two-year journey to enhance its public cloud on a
foundation of open source software," said Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President, Cloud and
Cognitive Software, IBM. "Today, we are going a step further by
unveiling new capabilities for the IBM public cloud, designed to
provide clients with the highest available level of security,
leading data protection and enterprise-grade infrastructure to run
Red Hat OpenShift."
Aegean Airlines has adopted IBM Cloud to transform its internal
business processes and further enhance its customer
experience.
"IBM is the strategic provider that will support our
determination and willingness to innovate and achieve excellence at
both organizational and business process level," said AEGEAN
Group's Chief Information Office, Aristeidis Kamvysis. "By
utilizing IBM Cloud, we're able to infuse IBM Watson into our
applications in order to gain better business insights, while
improving business operations in a reliable, scalable, and agile
environment."
With the consumer experience a top priority, banks like BNP
Paribas must deal with the rapidly changing needs of customers,
while also managing evolving security and regulatory guidelines,
and a variety of complex data and workloads.
BNP Paribas is leveraging the IBM Cloud and adopting a hybrid
cloud strategy to overcome these challenges and support its
development and innovation within the ever-increasing need for
security and compliance. This includes a BNP Paribas dedicated
cloud based on IBM public cloud technology that offers the best of
both worlds: the security of a private cloud, with the breadth of
catalog and economics of a public cloud. Due to launch in mid 2020,
it will provide access to the full range of IBM Cloud IaaS and PaaS
services, including IBM's Watson AI services, and will run in a
Multizone Region dedicated to BNP Paribas in the Paris area to provide high availability and
resilience. BNP Paribas will migrate its IT and applications to
this dedicated cloud, complementing it with the IBM public cloud in
the US, Asia and Europe. Together, BNP Paribas and IBM look to
define and establish the cloud platform to help meet the regulatory
and security controls facing BNP Paribas' critical banking
workloads.
"With the increasing regulation restrictions in the financial
services industry, institutions have been historically challenged
to use cloud, and public clouds in particular. By working with IBM,
we are able to provide the innovation and agility that public
clouds can offer, combined with the security necessary to remain
compliant," said Bernard Gavgani, BNP Paribas Group Chief
Information Officer. "This approach enables us to innovate faster,
provide a better customer experience, enter into new business
models and tap into new technologies, such as AI."
Together with IBM, Elaw Tecnologia SA, a company that
specializes in the development of corporate solutions for legal
management, created a new cognitive solution that automates
cumbersome and high-volume legal tasks, hosted on IBM Cloud.
"The strict labor laws in Brazil result in a vast number of labor
lawsuits. To streamline legal processes, we worked with IBM to
develop a AI-enabled legal process management solution to improve
efficiency and productivity for our lawyers," said Guilherme
Bordon, Chief Executive Officer, Elaw. "The solution is hosted on
IBM Cloud to enable Elaw to access IBM Watson APIs, automate
processes and provide a secured platform for confidential
information."
Home Trust, a federally regulated trust company based in
Canada, recently migrated its IT
infrastructure to IBM's public cloud to transform its operations,
while still maintaining end-to-end visibility and management
over its platforms and applications. By migrating to the cloud,
Home Trust now has access to flexible and scalable computing
services, as well as access to higher value technologies, including
AI, to digitally transform its offerings.
"For many financial institutions, upgrading core systems can
disrupt underlying business operations and impact efficiency,"
said Victor DiRisio, Chief Information Officer at Home Trust.
"By choosing IBM Cloud, we are able to modernize our IT environment
while realizing the economic benefits of cloud computing. It
ensures that new solutions are immediately useable, rapidly
deployable and can ultimately offer a superior customer
experience."
For more information on today's news, visit https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcing-new-public-cloud-capabilities
About IBM Cloud
With over $20B in annual cloud revenue, IBM has built a
leading enterprise hybrid cloud business. This includes a
comprehensive range of as-a-service offerings, software, hardware
and professional services that enable IBM to advise, move, build
and manage cloud solutions across public, private and on-premises
environments. Through its global network of more than 60 cloud
data centers across 19 countries and 18 availability zones across 6
regions, IBM public cloud helps enterprises in all industries to
meet security, resiliency, performance, and global deployment
requirements. Built on an open source, multitenant environment,
clients have secured access to an enterprise-grade IaaS and a
leading PaaS that provides them with the latest developer
capabilities and ready-to-go innovation engines. This includes more
than 190 cloud-native APIs, such as AI, blockchain, IoT, serverless
and quantum computing, and consistent function all the way to the
edge.
For more information, visit
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/public
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are
subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals
and objectives only.
1 Encryption keys and cryptographic operations
are protected with highest level certified HSM - with Hyper
Protect Cryto services: FIPS 140-2 Level 4.
Contact:
Faye Abloeser
IBM Media Relations
abloeser@us.ibm.com
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