ARMONK,
N.Y., March 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
Consulting (NYSE: IBM) is working with Discover Financial Services
(NYSE: DFS) to help the leading digital bank and payments company
enhance its digital transformation of applications and existing
systems to a hybrid cloud architecture using Red Hat OpenShift.
"Consumers demand faster access to integrated digital banking
and payments more than ever, with the assurance that their data
will be protected," said John
Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting. "Embracing
an open enterprise hybrid cloud strategy with a secure platform
purpose-built for the financial services industry allows Discover
to deliver differentiated new experiences."
Discover plans to migrate and modernize its current systems and
applications to an open and flexible hybrid cloud architecture. Red
Hat OpenShift will help Discover leverage key capabilities such as
security, automation and multicloud service integration to reduce
operational costs, deliver better outcomes across business
processes, enable faster application deployments, and bring agility
with enhanced security and resilience.
"As we accelerate our digital transition journey as a leading
direct bank and payments company, it is critical that we have
technology solutions in place that help us improve the customer
experience," said Amir Arooni, Executive Vice President and Chief
Information Officer at Discover. "Working with IBM will allow us to
automate, react and deliver solutions more quickly, ultimately
driving down costs and helping our customers."
IBM Consulting also will collaborate with Discover's teams to
utilize IBM Garage and agile techniques to modernize existing
applications and co-create new solutions to help Discover
derive greater business and technical benefits.
Discover will use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for hybrid
cloud automation and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for
Kubernetes (ACM) to achieve end-to-end management visibility and
control of its cluster and application lifecycle across its hybrid
cloud architecture.
About IBM Consulting
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www.ibm.com/consulting.
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