ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced a new IBM Cloud Private software
platform to help companies unlock billions of dollars in technology
investment in core data and applications and extend cloud-native
tools across public and private clouds.
IBM Cloud Private software is designed to enable companies to
create on-premises cloud capabilities similar to public clouds to
accelerate app development. The new platform is built on the open
source Kubernetes-based container architecture and supports both
Docker containers and Cloud Foundry. This facilitates integration
and portability of workloads as they evolve to any cloud
environment, including the public IBM Cloud.
IBM also announced new container-optimized versions of core
enterprise software, such as IBM WebSphere Liberty, Db2 and MQ –
widely used to run and help secure the world's most
business-critical applications and data. This makes it easier to
share data and evolve applications as needed across IBM Cloud
private and public clouds and other cloud environments with a
consistent experience.
An airline, for example, could use IBM Cloud Private to bring a
core application that tracks frequent flyer miles into a private
cloud environment and connect it to a new mobile app in the public
cloud. A financial services firm could use it to keep customer data
in-house as it works to meet its security and regulatory
requirements while taking advantage of new analytic tools and
machine learning in the public cloud to quickly identify investment
trends and opportunities.
Enterprises to Spend More Than $50
Billion a Year on Private Clouds
While public cloud adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace,
organizations, especially in regulated industries such as finance
and health care, are continuing to leverage private clouds as part
of their journey to public cloud environments to quickly launch and
update applications. IBM estimates companies will spend more than
$50 billion globally starting in 2017
to create and evolve private clouds with growth rates of 15 to 20
percent a year through 2020, according to IBM market
projections.
"Innovation and adoption of public cloud services has been
constrained by the challenge of transitioning complex enterprise
systems and applications into a true cloud-native environment,"
said Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice
President for IBM Hybrid Cloud and Director of IBM Research. "IBM
Cloud Private brings rapid application development and
modernization to existing IT infrastructure and positions it to be
combined with the services and experience of a public cloud
platform."
Hertz, Ilmarinen Transforming IT with Private Cloud
The Hertz Corporation, one of the top car rental companies in
the world, believes both public and private cloud is critical to
achieving its technology objectives.
"Private cloud is a must for many enterprises such as ours
working to reduce or eliminate their dependence on internal data
centers," said Tyler Best, Hertz
Chief Technology Officer. "A strategy consisting of public, private
and hybrid cloud are essential for large enterprises to effectively
make the transition from legacy systems to cloud. Hertz is an early
adopter of both public and private IBM cloud and we could not
accomplish our technology goals without private cloud as part of
our overall cloud portfolio."
Ilmarinen, a Finland firm
responsible for the pensions covering approximately 900,000 Finns,
has started a pilot project with IBM Cloud Private and plans to be
in production in early 2018. "Ilmarinen is excited about the
capabilities in IBM Cloud Private as a flexible, compliant
cloud-native platform that it can deploy and manage behind our
firewall for creating new applications and modernizing traditional
workloads," said Jani Itkonen,
Production Manager, Ilmarinen.
IBM Cloud Private Provides Flexible Platform with Support for
Enterprise Developers
Innovations used in IBM Cloud Private are designed to simplify
cloud management, accelerate app develop and maintain security
across cloud environments. Key features include:
- Cloud Management Automation – Streamlined management
across cloud environments to help launch, monitor and manage
services and help ensure consistent security protocols.
- Security & Data Encryption – Security Vulnerability
Advisor to scan containers across the cloud to surface potentially
serious issues and weaknesses; Ability to encrypt all data in
flight and provide for strict access control by users within a
cluster.
- Core Cloud Platform – Includes a container engine,
Kubernetes orchestration, Cloud Foundry and essential management
tools surrounding developer runtimes, which are fully integrated
and automated.
- Infrastructure Choice – Compatible with systems from
leading manufacturers including Cisco, Dell EMC, Intel, Lenovo and
NetApp, as well as IBM Systems, including IBM Power Systems, IBM Z
and IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix software.
- Data and Analytics – Integrations with database
services, such as IBM Db2, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, to leverage data
and gain business insights.
- Application Support & DevOps Tools – Containerized
versions of software and development frameworks, including IBM
WebSphere Liberty, Open Liberty, MQ and Microservice Builder, as
part of software bundles; Optimized management and DevOps tools,
including APM, Netcool and UrbanCode, which can be added for a
separate fee.
IBM also offers cloud deployment, management, brokerage and
storage services to help clients manage multiple clouds and can
help clients with migration of applications to IBM Cloud Private.
More details on Cloud Private can be found in the product
overview.
IBM Cloud Private Reinforces IBM Commitment to Open
Source
IBM Cloud Private is another significant step in IBM's support
for organizations to create, deploy and manage apps in the cloud
environment of their choice. IBM and Google recently announced an
effort to create and open source the Grafeas project to help
developers with security of containers. Last month, IBM released
Open Liberty, a new lightweight, open-source version of its
WebSphere Liberty Java application server, to make it easier for
developers to get apps up and running in any cloud environment.
IBM also is a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing
Foundation, which hosts Kubernetes and Cloud Private is in
compliance with its interoperability conformance tests. To get
started with IBM Developer Journeys as they relate to Kubernetes,
please visit: https://developer.ibm.com/code/journey/
For more about IBM Cloud Private, visit here.
For more about IBM Cloud, visit here.
Contact:
Joe Guy
Collier
IBM Media Relations
jgcollie@us.ibm.com
+1 248 990 4707
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