A cloud strategy to help define your success

IBM Services™ for Enterprise Cloud Strategy helps create a holistic cloud strategy that connects your business goals to your IT architecture. Our capabilities can address your specific needs, including: 

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Migration and modernization
  • DevOps transformation
  • Transformation and outcomes

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Key capabilities

IBM Services for Enterprise Cloud Strategy brings experience with integrating traditional mission-critical environments with the latest technologies such as hybrid multicloud models and cognitive computing. Our cloud strategy consulting services can help you build a resilient, open, security-rich solution that creates new value for your business. IBM experts apply modern cloud adoption frameworks, workload analysis tools and techniques to ensure your cloud journey takes all your needs into account.

Enterprise Cloud Strategy

Provides an aligned business and IT strategy; application portfolio discovery with cloud platform recommendations; functional design and operating model with roadmap and business case.

Cloud Architecture Design

Delivers a comprehensive technical architecture and implementation plan covering infrastructure, containers, resiliency, workstations, management tooling, services and providers.

Cloud Security and Compliance Strategy

Offers end-to-end security assessment, risk evaluation and compliance considerations for cloud technology, DevOps and process implementation and management. 

Multicloud is the new reality

IBM Services for Enterprise Cloud Strategy uses open and secure multicloud strategies for application development, migration, modernization and management. Our cloud strategy consulting services feature the industry-leading IBM Garage Method for Cloud and tools to support AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud — in addition to IBM Cloud.

Key methods and tools

IBM Garage

The IBM Garage supports IBM Services for Enterprise Cloud Strategy through architecture to value realization with a focus on data, AI, security and compliance — underpinned by automated and AI-based tools and accelerators.

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IBM Cloud Advisory Tool

As part of our cloud strategy consulting services, IBM experts apply modern cloud adoption frameworks, workload analysis tools and techniques to ensure your cloud journey takes all your needs into account.

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Talk to us about getting started

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is cloud adoption?

Cloud adoption is the path for implementing digital transformation. Enterprise cloud adoption requires a strategic roadmap that balances current and future technology. This ensures agreement on issues such as key measurements of success, appropriate talent, capabilities and the management system that you should employ.

What is cloud strategy consulting?

Cloud strategy consulting a is a combination of proven expertise, tools and methodologies to develop business-aligned cloud strategies and implementation plans to guide clients in transforming their enterprise IT infrastructure. 

What is a cloud strategy?

A cloud strategy clearly defines your required business outcomes on cloud with a plan for implementation. Having a cloud strategy will enable you to apply its principles quickly with fewer delays, thus speeding delivery of results.