Hybrid Cloud
From Banks to Retailers, hybrid cloud is an IT architecture that provides a certain level of portability, orchestration and workload management to transform your business
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Why IBM for your hybrid cloud approach
Smarter architecture speeds transformation of the world’s leading organizations.
Redefine how you create and deliver value with hybrid cloud
The new generation of hybrid cloud enables you to build and manage across any cloud with a common platform, allowing you to skill once, build once and manage from a single pane of glass.
At IBM, the foundation of this approach is Red Hat® OpenShift®, the market-leading hybrid cloud container platform. With Red Hat OpenShift, you can develop and consume cloud services anywhere and from any cloud.
IBM also offers IBM Cloud Pak® solutions, an AI-infused software portfolio that runs on Red Hat OpenShift. These solutions can help organizations advance digital transformation with data insights, prediction, security, automation and modernization, across any cloud environment.
IBM has the most qualified and experienced practitioners in the hybrid approach, working across industries to redesign processes and applications to speed business transformation.
IBM and Red Hat shown as leaders in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020
Our hybrid approach
IBM Hybrid Cloud Platform
Our approach to hybrid cloud
Built on a foundation of Red Hat OpenShift, the IBM hybrid cloud architecture enables you to build and run with consistency across cloud, on-premises and edge environments.
Cloud infrastructure
The right cloud tuned for your specific business needs
Deploy in the locations right for your business, while incorporating new industry-specific capabilities that aren't offered by the average public cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift
IBM and Red Hat: choice and control, in your hands
Red Hat OpenShift is the market-leading multicloud container platform. It is designed to help you build once, deploy and manage anywhere.
Hybrid cloud software
Modernize, predict, automate, and secure your business
Our hybrid cloud software is uniquely designed to help you implement intelligent workflows in your business by unlocking the intelligence of AI and the agility of hybrid cloud.
Expertise
Access new skills and methods and deep industry experts
IBM has the most qualified and experienced practitioners and the largest ecosystem for hybrid environments — and IBM Garage™ services deliver an average 102% ROI.¹
Benefits of using hybrid cloud
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 IBM's 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
Businesses must invest in structured innovation programs to meet growth goals, respond to market conditions and execute accelerated digital transformation initiatives. IBM Garage is a prescriptive approach built on design thinking, agile techniques, and leading technologies applied at scale. Interviewed clients slashed time-to-market by 67% and released 6x more projects into production than their peers.
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.
Manage from one dashboard
Automate deployment, management and governance from a single control point, wherever your workloads run.
Get unified security management
Take advantage of continuous edge-to-cloud protection and compliance management for your data and applications.
Deploy infrastructure for your hybrid needs
Scale, move and secure data easily across your on-premises and cloud environments.
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 ROI¹ by designing smarter hybrid cloud solutions.
Hybrid Cloud Case study
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