{"id":36150,"date":"2019-08-15T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36150"},"modified":"2019-08-15T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:16:48","slug":"ibm-transforms-its-software-to-be-cloud-native-and-run-on-any-cloud-with-red-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/08\/15\/ibm-transforms-its-software-to-be-cloud-native-and-run-on-any-cloud-with-red-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM transforms its software to be cloud-native and run on any cloud with Red Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IBM announced that it has transformed its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimized it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on all leading public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and IBM Cloud and on private clouds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new cloud-native capabilities will be delivered as pre-integrated solutions&nbsp;called IBM Cloud Paks. The IBM-certified and containerized software will provide a common operating model and common set of services \u2013 including identity management, security, monitoring and logging \u2013 and are designed to improve visibility and control across clouds together with a unified and intuitive dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IBM also announced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2540788-1&amp;h=2543574268&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fcloud%2Fblog%2Fred-hat-openshift-on-ibm-cloud&amp;a=Red+Hat+OpenShift+on+IBM+Cloud\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud<\/a><\/strong><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>A flexible, fully-managed service of OpenShift on IBM&#8217;s public cloud \u2013 deployable in one-click with automated resiliency, data compliance, and security \u2013 to help enterprises modernize and migrate to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2540788-1&amp;h=2173441801&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fblogs%2Fsystems%2Fannouncing-our-direction-for-red-hat-openshift-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone&amp;a=Red+Hat+OpenShift+on+IBM+Z+and+LinuxONE\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE<\/a><\/strong><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>IBM will bring Red Hat OpenShift to their enterprise systems, IBM Z and LinuxONE, which collectively power more than 30 billion transactions a day globally. IBM already supports OpenShift on its Power Systems and Storage.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2540788-1&amp;h=509100101&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fblogs%2Fservices%2F2019%2F08%2F01%2Fibm-services-drives-digital-reinvention-enabled-by-hybrid-cloud-with-red-hat%2F&amp;a=Consulting+and+technology+services+for+Red+Hat\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Consulting and technology services for Red Hat<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;New IBM services delivered by&nbsp;one of the&nbsp;world&#8217;s largest&nbsp;teams of Red Hat certified-consultants and more than 80,000 cloud application services practitioners to help clients advise, move, build, and manage their workloads to cloud environments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The software and services announced, which include more than 100 products from across IBM&#8217;s expansive software portfolio optimized to run on Red Hat OpenShift, will be delivered on IBM&#8217;s hybrid multicloud platform. It is built on open source technologies, including Red Hat OpenShift, the industry&#8217;s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world&#8217;s leading enterprise Linux platform. As a result, clients can select the best architecture and approach to address the most critical application, data and workload requirements for their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;IBM is unleashing its software from the data center to fuel the enterprise workload race to the cloud. This will further position IBM the industry leader in the more than&nbsp;$1 trillion dollar&nbsp;hybrid cloud opportunity,&#8221; said&nbsp;Arvind Krishna, senior vice president, Cloud and Cognitive Software, IBM.&nbsp;&#8220;We are providing the essential tools enterprises need to make their multi-year journey to cloud on common, open standards that can reach across clouds, across applications and across vendors with Red Hat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Red Hat is unlocking innovation with Linux-based technologies, including containers and Kubernetes, which have become the fundamental building blocks of hybrid cloud environments,&#8221; said&nbsp;Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO,&nbsp;Red Hat. &#8220;This open hybrid cloud foundation is what enables the vision of any app, anywhere, anytime. Combined with IBM&#8217;s strong industry expertise and supported by a vast ecosystem of passionate developers and partners, customers can create modern apps with the technologies of their choice and the flexibility to deploy in the best environment for the app &#8211; whether that is on-premises or across multiple public clouds.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cloud Paks provide full software support and help protect the entire stack\u2014from hardware to applications \u2013 to help clients rapidly migrate, integrate and modernize mission-critical applications on any cloud. They are easily deployed, delivered as packages tailored for specific client use cases, and adding\u00a0a consumption-based pricing model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first five IBM Cloud Paks available include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Cloud Pak for Data\u00a0<\/strong>to simplify and automate how organizations deliver insights from their data and provide an open and extensible architecture to virtualize data for AI up to 430 percent faster.<\/li><li><strong>Cloud Pak for Applications<\/strong>\u00a0to help businesses modernize, build, deploy and run applications. It helped IBM customers in the fintech sector reduce development time by 84 percent.<\/li><li><strong>Cloud Pak for Integration\u00a0<\/strong>to help integrate apps, data, cloud services and APIs. It is designed to eliminate 33 percent of integration costs.<\/li><li><strong>Cloud Pak for Automation<\/strong>\u00a0to help transform business processes, decisions and content. A banking client was able to reduce manual processes by 80 percent.<\/li><li><strong>Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management<\/strong>\u00a0to provide multicloud visibility, governance and automation. It was able to help clients reduce operational expenses of supporting large-scale cloud-native environments by 75 percent.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software and services announced, which include more than 100 products from across IBM&#8217;s expansive software portfolio optimized to run on Red Hat OpenShift, will be delivered on IBM&#8217;s hybrid multicloud platform. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1130,214,1214],"class_list":["post-36150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cloud-technology","tag-ibm","tag-red-hat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}