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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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.
Why this matters for our clients and the world
Technical and business standards will enable enterprises to seamlessly broker access across cloud providers, taking advantage of specific providers’ capabilities, such as cost, technology, sustainability, geography, industry specialization.
The technologies and innovations that will make this possible
Cloud deployment and optimization capabilities will include cost optimization across cloud providers. Our programming model will evolve abstractions to discover and compose hybrid cloud services according to functional and non-functional objectives. We will optimize data placement and access.
How these advancements will be delivered to IBM clients and partners
The hybrid cloud platform will include the ability to dynamically discover and compose services and cost-optimize the selection of cloud providers and services among them.