Software that integrates z/OS-based services and resources into your private cloud
Overview
IBM z/OS® Cloud Broker provides access to z/OS resources and services from Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform, which enables you to integrate your z/OS infrastructure with hybrid multi-cloud environments and strategies. It integrates z/OS-based services and resources into your private cloud platform for a modern, cloud-native experience. This is the first software to provide access to z/OS services within private cloud platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift for consumption by the broader development community.
It enables you to protect and use your IBM Z® investments through integration with your hybrid cloud environments and strategies. Your developers can quickly create, modernize, deploy and manage applications within the security of your firewall.
Get self-service access to z/OS resources with no special skills required, driving innovation and value for your company.
Integrate your existing IBM Z hardware/middleware resources. Protect the infrastructure investments running within your data center and the skills of the professionals supporting it.
Have 100% control over access and levels of use to all z/OS resources.
Features
Get the services and resources of z/OS within RedHat OpenShift, a Kubernetes-based private cloud platform for building and running cloud-native applications and modernizing existing enterprise applications. Create connectivity from z/OS to an industry-standard K8s container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.
Focus on rapid innovation with self-service access to z/OS resources, including service catalogs with customized services that use the multi-tenancy and rapid elasticity of z/OS. The broker also offers integration of IBM Z with distributed and open technology and tools, and a cloud platform designed to facilitate management and compliance for cloud-native application development.
The broker integrates with your on-premises private cloud platform, controlled from behind your firewall and aligning with your organization’s security and regulatory processes. All z/OS services are managed and developed for consumption by the IBM Z operations teams, while you keep full control over access and levels of use with z/OS configurable cloud security.
The z/OS Cloud Broker runs on your existing infrastructure, protecting your investments in the infrastructure running within your data center as well as the skills of the professionals who support it. With z/OS Cloud Broker, you can access and deploy provisioned software services, made available through IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS, thereby using your existing investments in z/OS middleware.
Get the services and resources of z/OS within RedHat OpenShift, a Kubernetes-based private cloud platform for building and running cloud-native applications and modernizing existing enterprise applications. Create connectivity from z/OS to an industry-standard K8s container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.
Focus on rapid innovation with self-service access to z/OS resources, including service catalogs with customized services that use the multi-tenancy and rapid elasticity of z/OS. The broker also offers integration of IBM Z with distributed and open technology and tools, and a cloud platform designed to facilitate management and compliance for cloud-native application development.
The broker integrates with your on-premises private cloud platform, controlled from behind your firewall and aligning with your organization’s security and regulatory processes. All z/OS services are managed and developed for consumption by the IBM Z operations teams, while you keep full control over access and levels of use with z/OS configurable cloud security.
The z/OS Cloud Broker runs on your existing infrastructure, protecting your investments in the infrastructure running within your data center as well as the skills of the professionals who support it. With z/OS Cloud Broker, you can access and deploy provisioned software services, made available through IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS, thereby using your existing investments in z/OS middleware.
Technical details
Operating environment
z/OS Cloud Broker requires a supported operating environment for deployment.
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