IBM unveils faster, more secured path to hybrid cloud
TECH behemoth IBM recently 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 - cent would have the procedures and tools they need to operate that environment. The process today is challenging because it security implications and a lack of consistent management and integration tools.
New Cloud Integration Platform
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 one-third, while staying within their unique requirements for security and compliance.
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 2 to 15 different clouds and want to deploy new cloud services such as AI, analytics and blockchain to stay ahead of the competition.
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.”
End-to- end 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 - ney to Cloud. IBM Services is establishing dedicated teams 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.
In addition, it includes a uni users to facilitate faster and easier access to cloud services via an environment integrated with - ure 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.
Security 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 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 the industry-leading security on the public cloud and is made possible by bringing IBM Linux ONE 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 provider.
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 - ments to IBM Cloud Private on Z.