IBM announces its intent to acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a Kubernetes certified service provider and training partner, to further advance IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy.

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Overview of cloud services and consulting

Use our cloud services to create a hybrid cloud strategy that drives cost efficiency, increases productivity and creates opportunities for innovation. With architectural flexibility and exponential technologies like AI, you can modernize your applications for improved ROI, build cloud-native applications, and manage them at scale — on your platform of choice. Our cloud services and consulting offers premier partnerships with Red Hat and dominant hyperscalers to deliver agility and fuel growth.

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Benefits of cloud services

Lower application costs and improve ROI

Transform your business model for growth with a hybrid cloud approach, lowering application costs and improving return on investment with AI and automation.

Modernize and manage your applications

Continuously modernize and manage your applications on any platform with enhanced control and visibility, security and regulatory compliance. 

Adopt new ways of working and deliver innovation at scale

We closely partner to solve internal expertise gaps by helping reskill and upskill your teams through deep collaboration — changing the way you innovate to convert successful ideas from pilot to enterprise-scale adoption.

IBM Services, IBM Garage and IBM Cloud meant access to truly world-class expertise and best practices, backed by IBM’s aviation experience, and integrating all of that into our digital transformation.

— Takhliq Hanif, Head of Group Enterprise Architecture, Technology and Innovation, Etihad Airways

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Cloud services capabilities to help you transform your business

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Cloud strategy consulting and services

We work with you to determine the right cloud strategy, operating model, roadmap and ecosystem partnerships, combining our deep industry expertise with technology insights.

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Application modernization consulting and services

Our application modernization methodology powered by Red Hat helps you execute a seamless migration and modernization to cloud that is secure, cost-effective and agile.

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Build cloud native services

Using a cloud-native build strategy accelerates innovation at lower costs, helps achieve faster time to market and drives revenue growth with open, secure, hybrid multicloud platforms.

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Application management services for hybrid cloud

Our hybrid cloud management capabilities remove the complexity of managing applications across clouds for improved ROI and freeing up IT resources to innovate.

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HFS Research recognizes IBM among Top 10 Hyperscaler Cloud Service Providers

As companies embrace the journey to cloud native, IBM is both a compelling partner and hyperscaler bringing a wealth of toolkits and methodologies, such as IBM Garage™ and Cloud Paks, to accelerate cloud adoption and value creation. As highlighted in our Top 10 Hyperscaler Service Provider research, IBM offers customers proven execution and innovation capabilities. With the addition of Red Hat Open Shift, IBM customers can use multicloud architecture to orchestrate, improve and continuously innovate.

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Strengthening our cloud capabilities

Advancing hybrid cloud growth with Nordcloud

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Strengthen your business through cloud migration and transformation capabilities.

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Hybrid cloud consulting with Taos

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Discover how to drive global hybrid cloud adoption with its deep expertise, public cloud partnerships and innovative solutions.

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Driving digital transformation with TruQua

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Learn how IBM provides financial workflow expertise with SAP while strengthening the hybrid cloud growth agenda.

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Related cloud services solutions

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Microsoft Azure

Use our industry-leading Cloud Innovate methodology and tools to help accelerate growth, efficiency and innovation, using open and secure multicloud strategies for application development and management.

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AWS Cloud Services

Using agile methodologies and extensive reusable blueprints, we can help speed your design, migration and operation on AWS Cloud regardless of your industry segment.

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Google Cloud Platform

Gain support for modernization and migration of your workloads and applications to Google Cloud and other multicloud platforms.

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Services for IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud with Red Hat brings together market-leading security, enterprise scalability and open innovation for increased agility and continuity.

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Co-create with IBM Garage

Ideate, build, measure, iterate and scale solutions seamlessly with our end-to-end framework of design thinking, agile and DevOps practices. Achieve speed-to-value and adopt breakthrough technologies through the partnership created with your team and a diverse set of IBM experts in business, design and technology.

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