ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced a strategic expansion of capabilities to
provide clients with the flexibility to choose where to deploy
workloads, from on-premises to the IBM public cloud, and drive
forward their journey to the hybrid cloud. The new and enhanced
solutions include containerized software across IBM IT
Infrastructure via IBM Cloud Paks and advancements in data storage
for containers.
According to a recent IBM commissioned Forrester study, "The Key
to an Effective Hybrid Multicloud Strategy,1" 85 percent
of respondents are increasing funding for IT infrastructure outside
of public cloud, suggesting that organizations continue to rely on
both on-premises and private cloud as part of their technology
stack.
"The global pandemic and ensuing economic disruption have
amplified the need for speed and flexibility and accelerated plans
for digital transformation," said Tom
Rosamilia, Senior Vice President of IBM Systems and
Chairman, North America. "Our
clients are increasing their investments in AI and cloud. They are
moving swiftly to reduce costs while improving security with
approaches like confidential computing and resiliency, and IBM's
hybrid multicloud strategy with Red Hat is at the epicenter of this
transformation."
Signaling strong adoption, many of IBM's top IBM Z and Power
Systems clients are currently running proofs-of-concept with Red
Hat OpenShift on Z, and over 100 more are ready to start. In
addition, more than 40 IBM clients are already using IBM Storage as
a persistent, highly available repository with strong security
capabilities for OpenShift. This builds on a longstanding
collaboration between IBM IT Infrastructure and Red Hat as well as
previous investments made across IBM Z, LinuxONE, Power and Storage
offerings to support Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading
enterprise Kubernetes platform.
Today, over 100 new to LinuxONE and Linux on Z clients are now
running mission-critical applications in the hybrid cloud. These
clients are all sizes from startups to enterprises, representing
industries ranging from healthcare, retail, transportation,
financial and technology services, and public sector.
IBM announced new and upcoming capabilities designed to help
clients implement hybrid cloud with IBM IT Infrastructure,
including:
- Ability to infuse AI throughout the business and consolidate
databases with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, already available on IBM
Power Systems, planned for November on IBM Z
- Accelerate digital transformation and connect cloud native
applications to existing workloads with IBM Cloud Pak for
Integration on IBM Z
- Faster cloud native development with integrated runtimes
enabled by IBM Cloud Pak for Applications for IBM Z and Power
Systems
- Increased visibility, automation, and governance across the
hybrid multicloud with IBM Cloud Pak for Multi-Cloud Management
for IBM Z and Power Systems
Persistent Storage and Data Protection for Container
Workloads
IBM Storage is also bringing extensive new and future
enhancements to its storage and modern data protection solutions.
These are primarily designed to support the rapidly expanding
container and Kubernetes ecosystem, including RedHat
OpenShift.
IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks is now expanding support for
container-native data access on Red Hat OpenShift. This suite aims
to provide the greatest flexibility for continuous integration and
continuous delivery to teams who often need file, object, and block
as software-defined storage. IBM Spectrum Scale also adds a
fully containerized client and run-time operator to provide access
to scalable data lakes on any Red Hat OpenShift cluster. IBM Cloud
Object Storage adds support for the open source s3fs file to object
storage interface bundled with Red Hat OpenShift.
"As we embark on a journey to modernize our infrastructure with
containerized applications and Red Hat OpenShift we needed an
infrastructure that could support our application modernization in
a safe and secure way," says Christoph Buchstätter, Head of
Computing and Platform Services, Porsche Informatik. "We chose IBM
Cloud Object Storage because of the built-in security and stability
with high availability it will provide our containerized
applications. The system is simple to manage and maintains the
data in our control."
This substantial shift to containers is having an enormous
impact on modern data protection. Today's organizations want
solutions that unify data recovery, retention, and reuse and also
protect critical data workloads in hybrid cloud
environments.
"Container technology such as Red Hat OpenShift is the
foundation for hybrid cloud deployments, enabling application and
data portability and scalability across private and public clouds,"
said Scott Sinclair, Senior Analyst,
ESG. "IBM is delivering container-native data protection and
persistent storage together with expanded hybrid cloud data
protection support. IBM recognizes that many of their clients will
continue to have non-containerized workloads for years to come.
Consequently, IBM is providing tools that span containerized and
non-containerized environments: common data protection
infrastructure, and unstructured data support that expands existing
data oceans to provide a single 'source of truth' for AI and ML
workloads no matter what platform they run on."
To address these challenges, IBM will enhance IBM Spectrum
Protect Plus to enrich protection for containers. IBM Spectrum
Protect Plus will protect Red Hat OpenShift environments with an
integrated experience that starts with the ability to deploy IBM
Spectrum Protect Plus Server as a container using a Red Hat
OpenShift Operator.
For more information on today's news visit:
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/storage-made-simple-for-containers-and-hybrid-cloud
Media Contact:
Lauren
Nowicki
Lauren.Nowicki@ibm.com
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1 A commissioned study conducted by Forrester
Consulting on behalf of IBM. September
2019
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