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Find the most effective pathway to cloud modernization, automate tasks, reduce complexity and risks
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Overview

IBM Consulting Advantage for Cloud Transformation is a generative AI-infused 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 Consulting Advantage for Cloud Transformation to deliver hybrid cloud and AI  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.

IBM named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services
Capabilities Plan and manage your hybrid cloud migration using generative AI, ensuring predictable outcomes and minimized risk. Cloud transformation planning

Utilize generative AI  to create a wave plan for migrating and modernizing workloads to cloud.

Application and workload analysis

Generative AI driven approach to 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

Leverage generative AI in migrating workloads to the cloud or developing 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 a technical blueprint with the help of generative AI 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.

Hybrid by design
Framework designed to help organizations achieve accelerated, low-risk migration, modernization and innovation, while driving business value, productivity and cost reduction. Learn more Register for an exclusive workshop
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Strategic partnerships Hyperscale your journey with Microsoft

Use our industry-leading Cloud Innovate methodology and cloud technology tools for application development and management to help accelerate growth, efficiency and innovation.

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Hyperscale your journey with AWS

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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Hyperscale with Google Cloud

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

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IBM 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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Hyperscale your journey with Oracle Cloud

Accelerate your journey to Oracle Cloud while unlocking the full value of business transformation

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Meet our experts AB Vijay

AB Vijay is an IBM Fellow and IBM Master Inventor with more than 58 patents filed in his name. As the CTO of Hybrid Cloud Services and Platform Engineering Services, he is responsible for bringing new-age engineering practices to Hybrid Cloud migration, transformation and management, defining the technology platform, tools and processes, providing the solution guidance, defining the new delivery methods, and supporting the Delivery organizations to scale to the new ways of working.

Shawn D'Souza

Shawn D’Souza is the Global Hybrid Cloud Transformation Leader for IBM Consulting, responsible for leading teams globally that serve clients across the cloud lifecycle spanning Advisory, Migration, Application Modernization, Cloud Native Development, and Digital Product Engineering.

Resources Mastering hybrid cloud

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Maximize the value of hybrid cloud in the generative AI era

A Hybrid by Design cloud approach helps unlock the power of hybrid cloud and Generative AI.

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