Flexible, resilient, secure IT

Accelerate your digital transformation with an open hybrid cloud strategy to unify across clouds and traditional IT.

1. The right strategy

As enterprises move more of their business to the cloud while orchestrating elaborate networks and providing end-to-end security, challenges invariably arise. Compounded by the inflexibility of existing processes in the face of change, modernization may seem too complex to tackle. First and foremost, when optimizing existing investments for cloud, a company should consider how their business goals, issues and challenges fit into the greater digital transformation effort. This is where an open hybrid cloud strategy is especially useful. The new generation of hybrid cloud provides a common platform across all cloud, on-premise and edge environments. It allows for integration of the best features and functions from any environment, while tapping the unmatched pace and quality of innovations from the open-source community. This means you can skill once, build once and manage from a single pane of glass.

2. The move to cloud

Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is accelerating its transformation to an open hybrid cloud environment. The move to the cloud is designed to reduce operational expenses, increase IT resiliency and streamline CCEP’s existing IT infrastructure to create a platform for standardized business processes, data and technology.

This will create a springboard from which to apply data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) and AI technologies to provide new insights across its operations to help drive further efficiencies. Together, IBM and CCEP are embarking on a journey toward an open and secure cloud architecture, while driving greater digital advancement.

According to Forrester, 89% of IT decision makers say open source allows for a more open and flexible hybrid cloud strategy.¹

1. Free and flexible

We all want more options. An open, hybrid approach gives you just that by allowing vendor diversification and preventing vendor lock-in. This provides the flexibility to build, deploy and manage workloads across any cloud. Backed by enterprise-grade security and resiliency, this improved freedom and flexibility can make a significant difference to the overall operational efficiency of your organization – freeing time to focus resources on transforming customer experience.

2. Innovation with cloud

Today’s banks are challenged to reshape the customer experience through new platform-driven business models while also lowering operating costs. They also must remain agile to rapidly respond to changing market and customer insights. All within an environment that’s dominated by rapid innovation, customer centricity, and mobile-first interfaces. This need for flexibility requires operational transformation to support continuous iteration and business model calibration.

To accelerate its digital transformation, BNP Paribas, one of Europe’s largest banks, is partnering with IBM to create a dedicated cloud that will leverage IBM public cloud technologies. The partnership ensures BNP Paribas has the flexibility and security to drive innovation for its customers – while protecting the business in a highly regulated environment.

Speed operations and development with a digital-first IT operating model to seamlessly adapt to evolving customer behaviors and preferences.

1. Unify your IT

An enterprise container platform provides orchestration across public and private clouds to unify environments for improved business and operational performance. IBM can help you develop and deploy an open hybrid approach allowing you to quickly scale the value of cloud in your organization. An enterprise container platform provides orchestration across public and private clouds to unify environments for improved business and operational performance. IBM can help you develop and deploy an open hybrid approach allowing you to quickly scale the value of cloud in your organization.

2. Modernizing for cloud

American Airlines needed a more efficient way to respond to customer needs. This meant transforming the way it worked by updating its technology stack, introducing DevOps concepts and leveraging an open and flexible cloud platform. IBM helped American Airlines modernize critical legacy applications to a cloud-native based microservices architecture ready to be migrated to open platforms.

Enterprises need a cloud management platform that can execute seamlessly across multiple clouds with a comprehensive multicloud orchestration capability.

1. Simplify complexity

Companies ‪need to offer capabilities that seamlessly integrate tasks across different types of clouds and entire IT infrastructures‬. Modernizing for cloud allows for integration of resources across multiple environments allowing for scalability while improving ROI. IBM can help you maximize the benefits of cloud and enable an as-a-Service model regardless of the underlying infrastructure of traditional, private or public cloud.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

2. Optimizing core apps

Tomago Aluminum’s IT department plays a critical role in ensuring that production runs 24/7 at its smelting facility. Tomago wanted to take advantage of cloud to improve agility, simplify complexity, and maintain availability and reliability across production. After migrating its business-critical SAP® software to the public cloud, Tomago was disappointed with the lack of insights and access available. Thus, Tomago decided to pivot to a private cloud model, based on an integrated infrastructure of IBM systems and Red Hat solutions. With its IBM private cloud infrastructure on-premises, Tomago experienced significant performance improvements, better service for system users and optimized insights to drive business decisions in real time. Tomago can now harness the full power of its core SAP applications to make faster, better decisions through actionable insights.