IBM Hybrid Cloud Roadmap
Composable applications, services, and infrastructure enable enterprises to create a dynamic and trusted virtual computing environment across multiple clouds, with simplicity for development and operations.
Hybrid Cloud
Roadmap
Strategic milestones
All information being released represents IBM’s current intent, is subject to change or withdrawal, and represents only goals and objectives.
You can learn more about the progress of individual items by downloading the PDF in the top right corner.
2023
Provide consistency across muticloud with a hybrid cloud platform.
In 2023, enterprises will use common platforms to build, deploy, and manage workloads in multiple clouds with tools from multiple vendors. OpenShift and serverless pipelines will accelerate and scale AI development.
2024
Scale generative AI-infused workloads across multicloud.
Scale generative AI on heterogenous IT by orchestrating multi-model workflows, leveraging distributed data, and building and deploying across enterprise functions and teams with diverse environments.
2025
Automate hybrid cloud management.
Increase automation with generative AI to reduce the need for human management of enterprise IT. Provide tools to address cost, efficiency, sustainability, regulatory compliance, and policy-based management concerns.
2027
Standardize to enable dynamic optimization.
Use common standards for uniform management and operability of applications and services on different on-prem, cloud environments, and edge devices.
2029
Realize the convergence of bits, neurons, and qubits.
Enable the composition and dynamic deployment of enterprise applications using combinations of AI, quantum computing, and classical computing.
2030+
Enable one seamless compute.
The multicloud as a global utility will deliver computing with simplicity, seamlessly integrating multiple computing models—classical and quantum—and providers and meeting regulatory, security, and sovereignty constraints.