Hybrid cloud solutions
A smarter strategy to drive real business transformation
A hybrid cloud approach offers 2.5 times more value for your business¹
Why IBM for your hybrid cloud approach
Smarter architecture speeds transformation of the world’s leading organizations.
Redefine how you create and deliver value with hybrid cloud
The new generation of hybrid cloud enables you to build and manage across any cloud with a common platform. That means you can skill once, build once and manage from a single pane of glass.
At IBM, the foundation of this approach is Red Hat® OpenShift®, the market-leading hybrid cloud container platform. With Red Hat OpenShift, you can develop and consume cloud services anywhere and from any cloud.
IBM also offers IBM Cloud Pak® solutions, an AI-infused software portfolio that runs on Red Hat OpenShift. These solutions can help organizations advance digital transformation with data insights, prediction, security, automation and modernization, across any cloud environment.
IBM has the most qualified and experienced practitioners in the hybrid approach, working across industries to redesign processes and applications to speed business transformation.
IBM and Red Hat shown as leaders in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020
2.5x
A hybrid multicloud platform drives 2.5 times more value than a single-cloud approach.¹
66%
Accelerate development by up to 66% using IBM and Red Hat solutions together.²
90%
More than 90% of Fortune 500 companies trust Red Hat.³
Our hybrid approach
IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform
Our approach to hybrid cloud
Built on a foundation of Red Hat OpenShift, the IBM hybrid cloud architecture enables you to build and run with consistency across cloud, on-premises and edge environments.
Cloud infrastructure
The right cloud tuned for your specific business needs
Deploy in the locations right for your business, while incorporating new industry-specific capabilities that aren't offered by the average public cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift
IBM and Red Hat: Choice and control, in your hands
Red Hat OpenShift is the market-leading multicloud container platform. It is designed to help you build once, deploy and manage anywhere.
Hybrid cloud software
Modernize, predict, automate and secure your business
Our hybrid cloud software is uniquely designed to help you implement intelligent workflows in your business by unlocking the intelligence of AI and the agility of hybrid cloud.
IBM Services for cloud
Access new skills, methods and deep industry experts
IBM has the most qualified and experienced practitioners and the largest ecosystem for hybrid environments — and IBM Garage™ services deliver an average 102% ROI.⁴
Benefits
Build and run anywhere
With Red Hat OpenShift, you can develop and consume cloud services anywhere.
Security and compliance
Build trust into every interaction with the IBM portfolio of security services.
Industry expertise
IBM has the most qualified experts in the hybrid approach to industry.
Automate and modernize
IBM automation capabilities can help you implement intelligent workflows.
Leverage innovations
With hybrid, you can access innovations to help achieve your goals.
The Forrester Total Economic Impact of IBM Garage
Only when company teams embrace innovation and transformation together do they reinvent the organization's future. IBM Garage is a prescriptive approach built on design thinking, agile techniques and leading technologies applied at scale. IBM Garage clients have generated 10 times more innovation ideas, slashed time-to-market by 67%, and released six times more projects into production.
Forrester Wave Leader 2020 for both developers and operators
Using IBM and Red Hat solutions together can help you achieve better savings, speed, flexibility and outcomes. According to the Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Development Platforms Q3 2020 report, “Red Hat-IBM is a Leader in this report with the leading platform for both developers and operators.”
IBM Institute for Business Value: The hybrid cloud platform advantage
Enterprises need an application development platform that can run on any cloud, workloads that can execute seamlessly across multiple clouds, and comprehensive orchestration capabilities that span across clouds. A platform approach can play a unifying role to harness the full range of capabilities available to it for improved business and operational performance.
Oxford Economics report: How hybrid cloud and AI work together
77% of IT leaders believe a unified cloud, data and AI platform is crucial to long-term success. Oxford Economics and IBM surveyed 6,000 CIOs, CTOs and senior IT leaders, and the research reveals key insights (PDF, 211 KB) into the relationship between hybrid cloud and AI.
Build faster. Securely. Anywhere.
On 9 March 2021 at 11 AM ET, join industry leaders and a special guest as they introduce IBM Cloud Satellite.
Explore cloud solutions to meet your business needs
Act on insights with edge computing and 5G
Automate operations and improve experiences with data insights processed faster at the edge.
Speed up software and services delivery
Increase agility, shorten releases, improve reliability and stay ahead of the competition.
Build intelligent IT operations
Deploy AI across the ITOps toolchain. Deftly manage incidents across mission-critical workloads.
Get unified security management
Take advantage of continuous edge-to-cloud protection and compliance management for your data and applications.
Deploy infrastructure for your hybrid needs
Scale, move and secure data easily across your on-premises and cloud environments.
Drive up to 3x more value
Partner with IBM Garage, innovate with our teams, and discover how to realize more than 102% business and IT ROI⁴ by designing smarter hybrid cloud solutions.
Industry news
IBM is bringing the power of hybrid cloud architecture to businesses everywhere
Etihad delivers a premium travel experience
Etihad Airways is using IBM® NextGen Common Travel Services on IBM Cloud to offer passengers a check-in experience that’s quick, easy and highly personalized.
BrightFarms improves food safety and freshness
With IBM Blockchain on IBM Cloud, indoor produce grower BrightFarms has gained greater insight into their supply chain, helping ensure safety and freshness.
Circeo processes loans quickly and securely
With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, Circeo is helping its banking clients process loans in a small fraction of the time required for traditional loans.
Tabadul modernizes IT with microservices
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration technology is helping Tabadul gain the container management capabilities it needs to ensure scalability and flexibility.
What's new
IBM Cloud powers the best experience in golf
The Masters is using the flexibility of IBM hybrid cloud solutions to scale their capabilities and share the tournament with golf fans everywhere.
Introducing IBM Cloud for Telecommunications
More than 35 partners committed to join the first open hybrid cloud architecture designed to help communications service providers address the specific challenges of a highly regulated industry.
Resources
Get started
Your journey to hybrid cloud starts with an IBM Cloud account. And we're just a click away if you want help getting up and running.
Footnotes
¹ The hybrid cloud platform advantage (PDF, 332 KB), IBM Institute for Business Value, June 2020
² The Total Economic Impact of Using Both IBM and Red Hat Solutions Together, Forrester, June 2019
³ Client data and Fortune 500 list (Link resides outside IBM.com), Red Hat, June 2020
⁴ The Total Economic Impact of IBM Garage (PDF, 1.0 MB), Forrester, October 2020