IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh

Effortless, reliable and scalable application networks across any clouds and sites

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Overview

IBM Mesh for agentic AI era

As enterprise infrastructure evolves to support agentic AI, IBM is bringing the capabilities of IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh forward into a new offering purpose-built for this era — extending the connectivity, discovery, and resilience principles you rely on today to securely connect AI agents, APIs, tools, and MCP servers across any cloud or edge environment. Stay tuned for more details.
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Features

Accelerate secure app connectivity

Portable application networks across platforms, clusters, clouds, and networks - agnostic of underlaying IP layer infrastructure. Create connectivity without any changes to applications and services. Facilitates mobility of application workloads across environments.

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    Autonomously create secured application connectivity across any cloud within infrastructure team predefined networking and security controls. Enhance developer productivity with self-service, developer-controlled app connectivity APIs and CI/CD integration to existing tools & processes.

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    Zero Trust Networking (ZTN) is a security approach that shifts away from traditional perimeter-based security models by assuming that no service consumer, whether inside or outside the network, should be trusted by default. Instead, ZTN enforces continuous verification and authorization of all access requests, ensuring that only authorized service consumers can access specific resources based on access privileges.

    Screenshot of IBM Zero Trust Networking Security UI dashboard

    Optimize latency between application components on the application network, across platforms, clusters, sites, and clouds.

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    Increase collaboration and productivity between application and infrastructure teams through a shared portal and automated workflows. Implement a common platform for application and infrastructure teams to visualize both the application and network layers to quickly diagnose, correct app connectivity issues, and optimize application performance.

     

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      Use cases

      Maximize your hybrid cloud infrastructure

      Seamless migration

      Migrate VMs to Kubernetes Virtualization faster with zero disruptions. Bypass firewall bottlenecks, reduce downtime and accelerate migration to optimal environments.
      Connect mainframes to the cloud effortlessly

      Access Z services and data via REST APIs in any cloud as if they were local.
      Always-on connectivity and optimized resilience

      Minimize downtime with built-in resilience, assisted troubleshooting and faster issue identification across application and network layers.
      Instant self-service app deployment

      No more waiting—connect applications automatically as they are deployed.
      Optimized resilience

      Decouple app connectivity from the network to boost uptime. Quickly pinpoint issues at the app or network layer and independently strengthen resilience across both layers.
      Simplify and accelerate app migration

      Simplify and accelerate app migration across hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. Seamlessly bypass firewall bottlenecks, reduce downtime and drive efficient migration of Kubernetes and applications to optimal environments.

      Resources

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      Footnotes

      IBM’s statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at IBM’s sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.

      1IBM. “IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh”. IBM Corporation, 2024.