IBM Software Services for Cloud provides unrivaled IBM software expertise and assets to deploy your workloads in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments.
Our IBM Software Services for Cloud solution portfolio provides offerings to help you:
- Fully leverage IBM’s workload pattern technology and cloud-enabling platforms to accelerate cloud development and deployment. Use pre-built IBM patterns or build custom patterns that harness capabilities from across IBM’s software portfolio to support your specific workload.
- Maximize your development investment — deploy custom patterns compatible with multiple environments: IBM SmartCloud™ Application Services, IBM PureApplication™ System, or an IBM Workload Deployer-enabled infrastructure.
- Deploy your applications and use IBM software within IBM SmartCloud Enterprise and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+.
- Integrate new patterns and cloud applications with your existing systems.
- Migrate applications onto an IBM platform and extend their functionality.
- Support custom-built patterns long term.
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Assessment and planning
After getting a better understanding of your requirements and current capabilities for delivering business critical applications, our team will work with you to frame an action plan for deploying your application on an IBM cloud-enabling platform. You will:
- Get guidance on how to best deploy your applications in the cloud and a better understanding of your options.
- Extract greater value from your IBM cloud platform investments with a plan of proven activities to get your workloads running on those platforms.
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Provision, develop, deploy, and integrate
Our team will assist you in designing the right environment and cloud delivery approach tailored to your needs. We will then help you provision that environment, and develop and deploy a custom pattern that supports your workload. We will help you:
- Build multiple environments within IBM PureApplication System, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, or IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+.
- Create a custom workload pattern that supports your specific workload and combines multiple IBM software capabilities.
- Use IBM SmartCloud Application Services for greater development and delivery efficiency.
- Integrate with other cloud or on-premise systems.
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Application migration
Migrate your applications to an IBM cloud-enabling platform and extend its capabilities. After preparing the application to run within your selected IBM platform, we will ensure the application is properly tested and ready for production deployment. We will help you:
- Prepare your applications to leverage the capabilities of IBM’s software and cloud platforms — including those not previously built using IBM technology.
- Make your applications "production-ready" for cloud delivery.
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Maintenance and On Demand Consulting
Let us help you manage your cloud-deployed IBM software. Subscribe to one of several levels of service with the right combination of advisory and hands-on consulting to fit your business needs. Depending on the service level purchased, we will provide:
- 24 hour request system.
- Q&A with consultants.
- Access to specific services assets and best practices.
- Updates to patterns.