IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator

Overview

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator is a platform designed specifically to help businesses accelerate cloud adoption with consistent and predictable outcomes so they can navigate with certainty. It supports a wide range of applications and landing zones enabling both hybrid cloud and platform-native modernization, and integrates and orchestrates a wide range of migration tools across IBM’s assets and products, open source, and third-party tools.

IBM Consulting teams use the Accelerator to deliver hybrid cloud journeys with specific execution and transformation steps that take a workload from the source deployment to a transformed cloud deployed end state. The platform provides flexibility to choose what to move and when based on your business imperatives. It enables consistency and provides an accelerated modernization process end-to-end from rapid discovery to solutioning and low-touch delivery.

Benefits

40%

Up to 40% faster planning¹

30%

Up to 30% lower cost delivery¹

Capabilities

Plan and manage your hybrid cloud migration with predictable outcomes and lower risk.

Cloud transformation planning

Create a wave plan for migrating and modernizing workloads to cloud.

Application and workload analysis

Collect infrastructure, application data, target state preferences and produce optimized cloud modernization paths for each workload. Optimized for time, cost and business benefits.

Migrate, modernize and build

Migrate workloads to the cloud or develop new applications natively on the cloud with our unique journey-based, automation-first approach with low-touch factory squads to deliver with predictable outcomes.

Application and platform design

Create technical blueprint to guide the implementation for consistent experiences across different cloud platforms and services.

Configure cloud services

Automate the build-out and configuration of the cloud platform and the required cloud services for the application workloads.

Day 2 operations

Drive consistency in the cloud operation regardless of choices of cloud providers or landing zones.

Strategic partnerships

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud Platform

IBM Cloud

Meet our experts

Shawn Dsouza

Vice President and Thought Leader in hybrid cloud and application modernization with a proven track record for helping clients drive transformational business outcomes by leveraging disruptive technologies and platforms.

Edison Luis

Product Manager for IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator, Eddy is passionate about creating an integrated platform that accelerates cloud transformation through the insightful use of technology and providing a seamless end-to-end user experience.

Catherine Percio

Assets Engineering Program Director, Catherine leads high-performing teams to build differentiated assets that provide automation across the transformation lifecycle, reducing risk and effort.

Resources

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Optimize your digital transformation

Learn how the IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator lets you move complex workloads to the cloud with speed and consistency. It’s a revolutionary cloud acceleration platform that helps drive rapid planning and low-touch execution with predictable outcomes.

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Strategic app modernization

Strategic application modernization is key to transformational success and can boost revenue and lower application maintenance and running costs. Read the latest paper from IBM Consulting to learn more about the four steps to successful application modernization.

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IBM Transformation Index: State of Cloud

A comparative look at enterprise cloud strategy, the index offers a snapshot of progress in various areas of cloud transformation and reveals the biggest challenges and opportunities, which could help you map your organization’s cloud journey more effectively.

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Mastering hybrid cloud

The hybrid cloud journey’s archenemy is complexity, but complexity can be overcome. Explore IBM Consulting’s list of 5 common challenges that frustrate hybrid cloud journeys to value, observed while working with clients all over the world.

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IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator

Overview

Benefits