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.
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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.
Why this matters for our clients and the world
A consistent multicloud platform will provide increasing levels of automation. Together with core services across deployment locations, this will give enterprises agility and efficiency at scale as they adopt AI and multiple clouds.
The technologies and innovations that will make this possible
Linux and Kubernetes with low-code, no-code, and serverless will enable flexible deployment. Infrastructure-as-Code, as-a-service infrastructure, and programmable domain-specific control planes will automate deployment. AIOps helps manage the hybrid cloud. Cloud-native platform and runtimes will be developed for AI.
How these advancements will be delivered to IBM clients and partners
Watsonx was built on OpenShift AI. Ansible, RHACM, and OpenShift are being used today by multiple clients in consistent ways across multicloud. As-a-service experience is supported for hundreds of clients via Satellite, transitioning to Red Hat OCP aaS in 2024.