The benefits of building a hybrid cloud business: Part two

The platform for public, private and hybrid applications: IBM Cloud. 

IBM Cloud™ was designed to support the full range of applications: from modern, cloud-native apps and microservices to legacy, monolithic software and systems. Companies that choose IBM Cloud have the infrastructure they need to build new applications from scratch, modernise existing applications, or both.

As mentioned in part one of this series, our strong partnership with IBM Cloud has allowed partners to provide scalable and flexible infrastructure solutions to their customers. Partners can either build new applications from scratch, modernise existing applications, or both. It’s an open platform where you can integrate solutions and accelerate the development and deployment of hybrid applications.

Benefits of IBM Cloud virtual compute

Flexible

Get public or dedicated virtual servers and local or SAN storage. Deploy and scale with maximum workload placement. Choose from hourly or monthly options.

Powerful

Every virtual server is guaranteed, with no oversubscription on core or RAM.

Global

IBM Cloud offers locations around the world to serve your users where they are.

IBM Cloud virtual compute features

Auto scaling

Use auto scaling to automatically grow or shrink your cloud environment — deploy additional virtual servers or cancel unneeded ones with minimal effort.

Security and compliance

IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers provide 24×7 onsite security, proximity and biometric access control, and digital security video surveillance.

Network and bandwidth

Get unlimited inbound public and private network bandwidth between global IBM Cloud data centres and 250 GB of public bandwidth with monthly billing.

System administration

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers offer advanced reporting, automated operating system (OS) reloads, remote reboot and console access, and Nimsoft monitoring.

Developer tools

With IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, you also get access to IBM Cloud APIs, the IBM Cloud Development Network, digital transcoding and email delivery service.

Varied pricing options

Choose predefined sizes and costs in hourly and monthly billing cycles, multitenant transient virtual servers for on-demand capacity at lower prices, or reserved servers for guaranteed, anytime capacity.

Public cloud: A broad range of compute choices: from bare metal and virtual servers, to serverless architectures, to Cloud Foundry apps, to Kubernetes containers.

• Support applications of any design
• Leverage IBM Watson®™ AI
• Power blockchain and IoT use cases

Private cloud: The IBM Cloud Private platform includes a portfolio of containerised middleware offerings to extend cloud functionality throughout the enterprise.

• Build on a Kubernetes foundation
• Modernise enterprise software and apps
• Option to deploy on IBM Z® infrastructure

Hybrid cloud: An integrated environment including public and private cloud, with supporting technologies for integration and multi-cloud management.

• Build, deploy and operate apps and services wherever they run best
• Get secure and seamless data portability

For more information on how you can build a hybrid cloud business for flexibility and portability, reach out to the Synnex cloud team today. 

Source: IBM