IBM Cloud Labs & High Performance On Demand Solutions is an elite group within IBM Software Group Strategy & Technology. We are an exceptional organization with deep skills, customer expertise, and the ability to rapidly collaborate as one virtual team. We work on a cross-brand level, developing first-of-a-kind solutions for our clients that leverage the entire IBM portfolio.

• We continuously innovate through customer collaborations to provide a competitive advantage, help leading edge customers, and drive new successes for IBM customers.
• We deliver end-to-end integrated solutions using technologies from our entire IBM portfolio -- building cross-brand expertise that spans DB2®, WebSphere®, Tivoli®, Rational®, Lotus®, Systems, Storage, and others.
• We now have ten IBM Cloud Labs in the US, UK, China, India, Korea, Japan, Ireland, South Africa, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Singapore infusing our deep expertise into the local regions. Each lab serves as a gateway for the local clients to tap into the knowledge of IBM's software, services, and research labs around the world.
• We bring together the global teams, using our cloud infrastructure to quickly serve our customers. We focus on customer successes and, by tapping into a global world-class talent pool to address their needs, we demonstrate a model of strong dedication that has brought confidence to our customers around the world. We use our industry-leading cloud computing infrastructure to quickly deploy customer pilots as a service.

Cloud Computing
Develop and deliver first of a kind solutions to help our clients adopt cloud computing:

• Reducing IT management complexity and skill requirements
• Sharing resources among multiple applications
• Accelerating application launches
• Supporting both existing and emerging, data-intensive workloads

Performance Lab
Develop performance methodologies and tools for scalable architectures:

• Provide best practices for enterprise cloud data centers designed for scalability
• Provide best practices for optimizing cloud computing centers to meet the performance needs of enterprise and public cloud users
• Serve as a test bed for IBM’s cloud computing performance and scalability experimentation

Banking Center of Excellence
Work with large global financial institutions in emerging and mature markets to improve the performance, scalability, and high availability of their application environment. Optimize game changing ISV applications on IBM platforms. Provide consultation on:

• Modernizing existing architectures
• Improving efficiency
• Reducing costs
• Increasing profitability

• Overview
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• How we can help you
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• HiPODS brochure
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• Library of white papers, best practices, and case studies
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• Press articles
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• Archive library
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