Maximize the value of hybrid cloud in the generative AI era
Accelerating digital reinvention with hybrid cloud and generative AI
Many companies struggle to achieve strong return on investment (ROI) from digital transformation—only 25% report solid outcomes from cloud initiatives (HFS Research). Challenges include slow adoption, unused use cases, cloud sprawl and rising complexity in scaling, skills, cybersecurity and data.
Hybrid by design addresses these gaps with a strategic approach to faster, lower-risk migration, modernization and innovation. By focusing on outcomes and leveraging AI, organizations can boost value, productivity and growth from hybrid cloud investments.
Five key priorities underpinning hybrid by design:
- Adopt a product-centric mindset.
- Build a scalable, intentional architecture.
- Ensure consistent cross-platform operations.
- Empower teams to use hybrid capabilities.
- Leverage data and scale gen AI.
Transformation areas
- Product led by design
- Integration by design
- Technology by design
Amplifying the priority, speed and scale of value creation across the organization, with a user-centric approach at its core
Seeding and scaling the product mindset, techniques and tools for driving greater value for customers, users and the business.
Realigning organization and process to how the business operates, backed up by transforming IT teams to product engineering teams.
Skilling transformation to leverage hybrid platform targeted for business acceleration, product engineering, cloud native and agile skills.
Ensuring seamless data flow and collaboration by harmonizing systems across the architecture
Enriching the in-person and digital interactions between people, machines and AI at every stage of the customer journey.
Building cross-platform integration patterns to address several application and gen AI use case scenarios.
Enhancing agility and innovation through unification across multiple hybrid cloud environments
Integrated security visibility across platforms with embedded automation.
Build and deploy models across platforms, resulting in the ability to run models where it needs to run driven by use cases and data.
Ensure data availability for build and run of models and other innovative use cases and ensuring data traceability across platforms.
Integrated tools driving development consistency and experience across platforms.
Seamless container management experience and ability to build-deploy-manage, including monitoring across platforms.
Designing and implementing operating platforms that enable efficient, scalable and secure operations across the hybrid cloud environment.
Case study
Strategic partnerships
Hyperscale with AWS Cloud
IBM, as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, helps organizations accelerate digital transformation by combining consulting, AI and technology expertise with industry experience and open innovation.
Using tools like Red Hat® OpenShift®, IBM Research® and its AI-powered IBM Consulting® Advantage platform, IBM enables clients to modernize and secure workloads, build cloud-native applications and integrate AI into business processes.
With AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q and AWS Transform, IBM also helps companies innovate faster and scale agentic AI solutions effectively.
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