LAS VEGAS, Sept. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- (IBM Edge)
-- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched cloud-ready systems,
services and solutions that simplify the movement of data,
applications and services across a hybrid cloud environment.
Organizations across all industries are investing in cloud
technologies for innovation, growth and efficiency. Today's clients
are seeking a blend of public cloud, private cloud and traditional
IT platforms. IBM's new solutions help deepen this hybrid cloud
integration.
"Today's business environment is very dynamic and filled with
disruption," said Tom Rosamilia,
senior vice president, IBM Systems. "A hybrid cloud model enables
clients to continuously adapt while also optimizing on-premises
investments. IBM is uniquely able to support the flexibility
clients need across IBM Systems and the cloud."
Clients are using IBM systems to take advantage of new
capabilities, optimize their operations or support changing
business demands. For example, HealthPlan Services, one of the
nation's leading healthcare technology companies, implemented a
hybrid cloud solution to address a new space in the market created
by the Affordable Care Act. Today, HealthPlan Services administers
more than 30 percent of the Individual On/Off Exchange insurance
market, as well as a significant percentage of the Group Insurance
market.
"Our triple-digit growth and leadership directly correlates to
our technology strategy and how our hybrid cloud architecture has
fueled business innovation," said Michael
Lawley SVP of IT at HealthPlan Services. "We utilize IBM z,
a technology that has adapted to disruptive change. It helped us
deliver services, products and new opportunities for our business,
as well as to our partners."
The new systems offerings designed for hybrid cloud include:
- Power Systems for cloud. With integrated OpenStack-based
cloud management and elastic consumption models, these new
enterprise-class IBM Power Systems for the cloud enable clients to
transform their IT infrastructure to a local cloud for AIX, IBM i
and Linux workloads and extend them with rapid access to compute
services in the IBM Cloud.
- z Systems for cloud. IBM z Systems Operational Insights
is a new SaaS-based offering that provides analytic insights on
cloud operations for new levels of efficiency and application
performance. It allows users to make better business and
application decisions based on trends and embedded expertise on
performance data through a GUI dashboard. This accompanies IBM
OMEGAMON Application Performance Management, which provides quick
identification of problem components through end-to-end visibility
for clients' hybrid workloads that include z Systems applications.
In addition, the newly available IBM Common Data Provider enables z
Systems operational data to be efficiently consumed in near real
time by the clients' cloud or local enterprise operational
analytics platform.
- IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management and
Protect. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management is a new solution
that drives operational and development agility and efficiency
across new and traditional applications by allowing detailed,
easy-to-use management of data copies. Additionally, IBM Spectrum
Protect has expanded its extensive hybrid cloud solution
integration with cloud object storage options for use in hybrid
cloud deployments.
These new offerings support the findings of a recent survey of
more than 1,000 global respondents from 18
industries1:
- 92% said the most successful cloud projects enable creation and
support of new business models.
- They expect 45% of workloads to remain on dedicated on premises
systems even as cloud use expands.
- 83% of the highest performing organizations said cloud
initiatives are integrated or highly coordinated.
Open Ecosystem Supporting Hybrid Cloud
An open and collaborative software ecosystem is critical for
cloud deployment and innovation. IBM announced a series of new and
expanded collaborations with IBM Systems for hybrid cloud
environments:
- Canonical: Canonical and IBM are extending their
ongoing alliance to make Ubuntu OpenStack available today on
LinuxONE, z Systems, Power Systems and OpenPOWER-based systems,
including the new line of LC servers. The two companies will
deliver solutions built on Canonical's software and IBM servers
through a deeper engineering, product and support collaboration.
This enables clients to leverage Canonical's portfolio across the
three platforms with simplified and automated OpenStack
management.
- Hortonworks: IBM and Hortonworks, one of the top
big data platforms in the world, are jointly entering the
marketplace to make Hortonworks Hadoop distribution available on
POWER. This will allow clients to utilize Open Enterprise Hadoop as
a complementary component of their data architectures to enable a
broad range of new applications, as well as to enrich existing ones
with additional data sources.
- Mirantis: Mirantis and IBM are collaborating to
develop reference architectures enabling Mirantis OpenStack to
manage compute nodes hosted on IBM Power Systems servers, and to
validate a host of core applications to run its OpenStack private
cloud. With this integration, Mirantis will now bring its OpenStack
based private cloud management to the POWER platform. This enables
clients to leverage the efficiency of IBM Power Systems for
data-driven workloads in a seamless and compatible way in their
data center through Mirantis's OpenStack cloud management.
- NGINX: NGINX's application delivery platform now
supports servers based on IBM's POWER architecture, with the latest
release of its commercial load balancer and web accelerator
software, NGINX Plus R10. The combination of NGINX Plus and POWER
brings new agility to enterprises, allowing them to scale their
infrastructure and application delivery solutions across any
environment – public, private and hybrid cloud, containers, and
bare metal – providing a consistent user experience.
- Red Hat: Red Hat and IBM are expanding their
long-standing alliance to better help clients embrace hybrid cloud.
Through joint engineering and deeper product collaboration, the two
companies plan to deliver solutions built on key components of Red
Hat's portfolio of open source products, including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux High Availability offerings, enabling IBM Power Systems as a
featured component of Red Hat's hybrid cloud strategy spanning
platform infrastructure located both on and off customer
premises.
By supporting open communities and standards, IBM is giving
clients a range of choices to create comprehensive hybrid cloud
strategies for their businesses in order to help them address
market place demands more quickly.
Media Contact:
Amy
Sammons
IBM Media Relations
+1 (239) 209-7414
amysamm@us.ibm.com
1 ibm.biz/tailoringcloud – IBM Institute for Business
Value executive report, " Tailoring hybrid cloud: Designing the
right mix for innovation, efficiency and growth
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