What is application management services for cloud?
Enterprises are striving to achieve cloud potential through hybrid and multicloud strategies, resulting in fundamental shifts in application management paradigms. These shifts include:
- An estimated growth of 68% in spending between 2018 and 2022 driven by the cloud shift across key enterprise IT markets.¹
- Currently, less than 20% of applications are in the cloud, and this proportion is expected to increase, resulting in both hybrid and multicloud adoption.²
- Yet, an estimated 90% of current applications will still be in use in 2023, with insufficient modernization efforts.¹
Managing applications in a hybrid cloud world is complicated with enterprise portfolios residing both on-prem and across different clouds. Traditional ways of application management are ineffective, costly and uncompetitive. Enterprises are rethinking their approach and capitalizing on modern capabilities for driving innovation, efficiency and resiliency into their application management practices.
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Efficiency and cost
DevSecOps and Quality Engineering enable incident resolution closer to the source; cognitive problem management offers advanced analytics for root cause analysis; and extreme automation for self-heal keeps workers steady.
Availability and resilience
Site Reliability Engineering provides resilience by design with application maintenance and enhancements; potential for no planned downtime with canary deployments and rolling updates.
Speed and agility
Short release cycles are aligned with business outcomes for improved time-to-value; offers aggressive, integrated service level agreements.
Security and reliability
Emerging security threat models with effective governance, risk and compliance; provides Open Source for Enterprise for improved governance and management of open source.
IBM capabilities to achieve your full cloud potential
Low- touch maintenance using extreme automation
Provides self-heal capabilities; increases digital workers for stable applications and improves cost take-out from baseline.
Integrated operations with NextGen DevSecOps
Offers complete incident triage, optimized multicloud usage with FinOps, and a reduction in unplanned outages.
Quality engineering through IGNITE for cloud
Delivers improvement in time to market, reduction in risk in new deployments, and cost reduction with improved quality.
Interoperability from multicloud service integration
Offers improved service agility with end-to-end service management plus a reduction in infrastructure and applications operations efforts.
Hybrid multicloud capabilities with full stack cloud squads
Delivers enhanced ability to shift-left and accelerated time to market, improved innovation velocity, and risk reduction in legacy talent.
Portfolio optimization driven by continuous cloud modernization
Increases the cloud footprint and delivers a significant technical debt reduction.
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Enterprise Application Services
IBM experts apply application tools and AI automation on application partner platforms including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others to create applications focused on security and customer outcomes.
Cloud Application Modernization
Increase IT velocity to maximize ROI from existing applications. Define and build application and infrastructure strategy; modernize and migrate applications to the cloud.
Application Development and Management
Let IBM help you lower TCO and improve app efficiency. Deliver high-performing, user-focused applications by taking advantage of IBM AI resources, automation tools and IBM Security practices.
IBM Services for Cloud Development
IBM provides end-to-end application development and infrastructure services for open, secure, hybrid multicloud environments.
IBM Services for Enterprise Cloud Strategy
IBM Services for Enterprise Cloud Strategy helps create a holistic cloud approach that connects your business goals to your IT architecture.
Quality Assurance and Testing Services
You need application quality that testing cannot deliver on its own. IBM IGNITE Quality and Test is an AI-enabled framework that helps you move from detection to prevention at increased speed and quality, and decreased cost.
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¹ Gartner: Application Modernization Should Be Business-Centric, Continuous and Multiplatform
² IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DevOps Services 2018 Vendor Assessment