Hybrid cloud solutions
A smarter strategy to drive real business transformation with hybrid cloud solutions
Why IBM for your hybrid cloud approach
What’s your hybrid cloud advantage?
The new generation of hybrid cloud provides a common platform across all of your cloud, on-premises and edge environments. That means you can skill once, build once and manage from a single pane of glass. IBM® provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments.
In fact, our hybrid cloud approach can offer up to 2.5x more value than a public cloud-only approach. With our hybrid cloud value calculator, you can determine the value that a hybrid cloud approach can bring to your business.
Value trajectory with hybrid cloud adoption
2.5x
A hybrid multicloud platform drives 2.5 times more value than a single-cloud approach.¹
66%
Accelerate development by up to 66% using IBM and Red Hat® solutions together.²
90%
More than 90% of Fortune 500 companies trust Red Hat.³
Benefits
Build and run anywhere
With Red Hat® OpenShift®, you can develop and consume cloud services anywhere.
Security and compliance
Build trust into every interaction with the IBM portfolio of security services.
Industry expertise
IBM has the most qualified experts in the hybrid approach to industry.
Automate and modernize
IBM automation capabilities can help you implement intelligent workflows.
Leverage innovations
With hybrid, you can access innovations to help achieve your goals.
The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of IBM Garage™
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.
Forrester Wave Leader 2020 for both developers and operators
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.”
IBM Institute for Business Value: The hybrid cloud platform advantage
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.
Explore cloud solutions to meet your business needs
Act on insights with edge computing and 5G
Automate operations and improve experiences with data insights processed faster at the edge.
Speed up software and services delivery
Increase agility, shorten releases, improve reliability and stay ahead of the competition.
Build intelligent IT operations
Deploy AI across the ITOps toolchain. Deftly manage incidents across mission-critical workloads.
Get unified security management
Take advantage of continuous edge-to-cloud protection and compliance management for your data and applications.
Drive up to 3x more value
Partner with IBM Garage, innovate with our teams, and discover how to realize more than 102% business and IT ROI⁴ by designing smarter hybrid cloud solutions.
Etihad delivers a premium travel experience
Etihad Airways is using IBM NextGen Common Travel Services on IBM Cloud® to offer passengers a check-in experience that’s quick, easy and highly personalized.
BrightFarms improves food safety and freshness
With IBM Blockchain on IBM Cloud, indoor produce grower BrightFarms has gained greater insight into their supply chain, helping ensure safety and freshness.
Circeo processes loans quickly and securely
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.
Tabadul modernizes IT with microservices
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration technology is helping Tabadul gain the container management capabilities it needs to ensure scalability and flexibility.
Resources
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Footnotes
¹ The hybrid cloud platform advantage (PDF, 340 KB), IBM Institute for Business Value, June 2020
² The Total Economic Impact of Using Both IBM and Red Hat Solutions Together, Forrester, June 2019
³ Client data and Fortune 500 list (link resides outside IBM.com), Red Hat, June 2020