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
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hyperscale with 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.
Google Cloud Platform
Hyperscale with Google Cloud
Gain support for modernization and migration of your cloud computing workloads and applications to Google Cloud and other multicloud platforms.
IBM Cloud

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Footnotes
¹ Results are general estimates based on IBM’s experience and may vary