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Accelerating AI‑driven transformation across the hybrid cloud
IBM Consulting® is the industry’s largest Red Hat® services practice and Red Hat’s #1 Global Systems Integrator. These tools bring together deep Red Hat expertise, AI‑powered methodologies and an open system to help clients transform with confidence and scale.
With certified consultants and specialists across industries, IBM Consulting helps organizations architect secure, open hybrid cloud foundations, modernize applications and unlock AI value faster. By combining Red Hat’s leading AI, automation and container platforms with IBM Consulting AI capabilities, we help clients orchestrate critical workloads across environments and optimize business processes end‑to‑end.
From AI-driven ideation to enterprise‑scale implementation and ongoing management, IBM Consulting and Red Hat technologies make hybrid cloud a launchpad for continuous innovation and measurable business outcomes.
The impact we deliver
- Cost efficiency: Up to 30% reduction in operating expenses.1
- Speed to market: Up to 50% faster development cycles versus traditional methods.1
- Accelerated modernization: Up to 25% faster migration and hybrid cloud adoption.1
- Cultural transformation: Up to 40% improvement in adoption through agile practices, continuous learning and value‑driven iteration.1
accelerated development in most cases, saving 12–24 weeks of labor costs per new application.1
up to 50% reduced resource consumption and licensing costs and up to 60% lower IT administration costs.1
up to 66% reduced security costs and up to 30% reduced unplanned downtime.1
Design and implement open, secure hybrid multi cloud architectures with Red Hat technologies to increase agility and flexibility across environments.
Modernize, migrate and optimize applications with Red Hat OpenShift to accelerate development, simplify operations and reduce costs.
Automate application deployment, scaling and management with Red Hat platforms to improve speed and consistency.
Strengthen security and governance across hybrid environments that reduce exposure risk and minimize unplanned downtime.
Combine Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud foundation with IBM’s AI expertise to support data‑intensive workloads and accelerate AI adoption at scale.
Use cases
- Legacy app modernization
- Hybrid cloud adoption
- IT productivity and governance
- AI workloads at scale
- Virtualized workload migration
- Co‑creation and innovation
Modernizing and containerizing legacy applications
Organizations transform legacy applications into cloud‑native workloads with Red Hat OpenShift, enabling faster development cycles, automated deployments and scalable operations. This approach reduces complexity and accelerates application modernization outcomes.
Accelerating hybrid cloud adoption with Red Hat OpenShift
IBM Consulting helps enterprises integrate cloud environments and cloud‑native apps so they can innovate more quickly, improve manageability and ensure that the target architecture is scalable, secure and flexible for evolving business needs.
Improving IT productivity and governance across hybrid environments
Adopting Red Hat technologies enhances consistency and portability, boosting IT staff productivity while strengthening security, governance and compliance.
Deploying and managing AI-driven workloads at scale
Red Hat’s hybrid cloud foundation combined with IBM’s AI expertise supports data‑intensive and generative AI workloads, helping clients scale AI from experimentation to enterprise deployment.
Streamlining migration of virtualized workloads to cloud
Enterprises can migrate existing VM‑based workloads to Red Hat using ready‑to‑use toolkits and automation. This process reduces operational complexity and improves resilience and cost efficiency.
Co-creating solutions through innovation hubs and IBM Garage®
Clients collaborate with IBM and Red Hat experts to ideate, prototype and scale solutions—using real-world use cases to validate architectures, accelerate transformation and unlock hybrid cloud value.
Case studies
Upgraded flight experiences. Fueled by hybrid cloud.
Building a power system that’s fit for the future.
Brewing a future of connected excellence through digital transformation.
IBM Consulting helps the Masters deliver world-class fan experiences with innovation and efficiency.
Insights
Make the core banking your strongest competitive advantage.
Red Hat Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for the Second Consecutive Year.
How hybrid by design creates business value.
How hybrid by design can improve business returns on your tech investment.
Meet our experts
VP IBM Technology and Red Hat Global Partnership, Practice & Offering, IBM Consulting
IBM Consulting, IBM and Red Hat Practice Leader | Red Hat Alliance Leader
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Footnotes
1The outcomes are based on engagements delivered for existing clients, including Delta, Neso, Heineken, The Masters and others. Outcomes presented are illustrative only. Actual results will vary based on client configurations and conditions and, therefore, generally expected results cannot be provided.