Use a smarter strategy to drive real business transformation with hybrid cloud solutions
As the great digital shift continues to accelerate, organizations are looking to accelerate business outcomes by unlocking the value of their data with an open, hybrid multicloud and AI approach that scales resiliency and performance. However, few are satisfied with the pace and scale of business outcomes, inhibited by the growing complexity of their IT estates. At IBM, we believe there are 4 key imperatives driving the next era of hybrid multicloud, which you must be prepared to meet, in order to keep up with the pace of innovation.
IBM is assisting clients in making informed architectural decisions to expedite outcomes and future-proof their businesses, enabling the creation of sustained value. These architectural decisions are grounded in 4 core imperatives:
XaaS is not just consumption-based computing with a cloud-billing model for infrastructure use; it's also a digital services platform offering a unified cloud operating model for business and IT. MI&S identifies one company, IBM, which has the potential to make a substantial impact on the XaaS space.
As the digital revolution gains momentum, we’ve seen businesses worldwide are intensifying their efforts to deliver intelligent and seamless digital experiences by leveraging data-driven automation. Consequently, a new approach to IT becomes inevitable—one where data fuels digital businesses, hybrid cloud enables data democratization, AI unlocks innovation, and XaaS drives outcomes.
Leading global analyst firm MI&S believes that the ideal XaaS solution and provider combine hardware, software, cloud enablement and ecosystem partnerships with extensive experience in the market. While there are a lot of innovative companies delivering solutions in the market today, MI&S sees one company in particular that could significantly impact the XaaS space—IBM.
Only when company teams embrace innovation and transformation together do they reinvent the organization's future. IBM Garage is a prescriptive approach built on design thinking, agile techniques and leading technologies applied at scale. IBM Garage clients have generated 10 times more innovation ideas, slashed time-to-market by 67%, and released six times more projects into production.
Using IBM and Red Hat® solutions together can help you achieve better savings, speed, flexibility and outcomes. According to the Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Development Platforms Q3 2020 report, “Red Hat-IBM is a Leader in this report with the leading platform for both developers and operators.”
Enterprises need an application development platform that can run on any cloud, workloads that can execute seamlessly across multiple clouds and comprehensive orchestration capabilities that span across clouds. A platform approach can play a unifying role to harness the full range of capabilities available to it for improved business and operational performance.
Automate operations and improve experiences with data insights processed faster at the edge.
Increase agility, shorten releases, improve reliability and stay ahead of the competition.
Deploy AI across the ITOps toolchain. Deftly manage incidents across mission-critical workloads.
Continuously and accurately match application demand to cloud resources in real-time and feel confident about your cost allocation.
Take advantage of continuous edge-to-cloud protection and compliance management for your data and applications.
Partner with IBM Garage, innovate with our teams, and discover how to realize more than 102% business and IT ROI¹ by designing smarter hybrid cloud solutions.
With IBM Blockchain on IBM Cloud®, produce grower BrightFarms has gained greater insight into its supply chain, helping maintain food safety and freshness.
With Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud, Circeo is helping its banking clients process loans in a small fraction of the time required for traditional loans.
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration technology is helping Tabadul gain the container management capabilities it needs to attain scalability and flexibility.
Footnotes
1 The hybrid cloud platform advantage, IBM Institute for Business Value, June 2020