Discover the top 10 criteria for selecting a managed services provider and take a strategic approach to making services sourcing decisions.
Get the scalability you need and minimize infrastructure cost and complexity
Cloud managed services from IBM can help you increase your business agility with consumption-based cloud services. Get the scalability you need to avoid downtime and performance problems, run in a security-rich environment, and minimize infrastructure cost and complexity.
Managed services
IBM Services for Managed SAP Applications
Moving your SAP applications to a managed cloud can deliver the flexibility and scalability by reducing costs, increasing agility and freeing up your staff resources.
IBM Services for Managed Oracle Solutions
Move your Oracle applications to a managed cloud environment so you can reduce complexities and costs, ensure you stay on track and support faster innovation.
IBM Services for Commerce solutions
Commerce Solutions provides a complete set of services to build, manage, run and protect complex eCommerce applications, helping to increase the agility and consistency of your eCommerce platform.
Cloud infrastructure services
Integrated Managed Infrastructure Services
Enable consumption of services dynamically across multiple platforms through a self-service catalog and a choice of service levels.
Cloud Automation Services
Integrated automation can provide speed, quality and consistency of service delivery.
Cloud Deployment Services
Increase flexibility by using automation to provision and orchestrate hybrid cloud infrastructure ready for application.
Cloud Brokerage
Cloud Brokerage Services Cost and Asset Management
Gain real-time visibility and insights to optimize cloud investments and establish and enforce governance control points.
Cloud Brokerage Managed Services
Reduce risk and costs while supporting innovation through an IT supply chain approach that helps you deliver multi-vendor IT solutions aligned to business needs.
Cloud Brokerage Managed Services Store
Search and order IT services from multiple cloud-based and traditional IT providers, mix and match solutions, be more responsive to users and enforce corporate policy and governance.
Our technology services are powered by IBM Services Platform with Watson™
Run your infrastructure with an IT platform that has the ability to make autonomous decisions and uses data to manage the operations that keep your environment healthy, always-on and continually optimized.
Connect with Cloud Services experts
Shailabh Nagar
Distinguished Engineer, Integrated Managed Infrastructure
Schedule a time with Shailabh to:
- Hybrid cloud management
- Complex solution design
- Consumption-based cloud services
Arun Hampapur
Distinguished Engineer, IBM Services Platform
Schedule a time with Arun to:
- Brokerage, orchestration, automation
- SaaS solutions for digital commerce
- Breakthrough, data-driven innovation
Andy Hacket
Cloud Engineer, Services for Managed Applications
Schedule a time with Andy to:
- Complex custom IT solutions
- Cloud workload analysis
- Cloud hosting for ERP (SAP, Oracle)
Ann Corrao
Distinguished Engineer, Services for Managed Applications
Schedule a time with Ann to:
- Managed SAP on the Cloud
- Software-defined storage strategy
- Cloud Managed Services
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