IBM Cloud Pak System NEWSLETTER

IBM Cloud Pak System is a turnkey modular cloud solution for running Cloud Paks and OpenShift container-based workloads in the datacenter. It provides a complete private cloud experience that is simple to setup, operate, scale, and maintain.

• Turnkey solution featuring factory assembled hardware and integrated management software.
• Powered by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and VMware virtualization.
• Ideal solution for hosting Cloud Paks and Kubernetes container-based workloads in the datacenter.

• Fastest way to deploy Cloud Paks in the datacenter
  Use built-in automation and accelerators to provision and deploy Cloud Paks in as little as 90 minutes.
• Agility enabled by a modular solution architecture
  Grow capacity by adding servers and storage independently. Partition solution resources into virtual cloud zones. Re-balance resources across zones in minutes.
• Fastest way to stand-up an OpenShift powered private cloud in the datacenter
  From order to delivery of a fully integrated, enterprise grade turnkey private cloud solution in as little as 7 days.
• Reduce TCO of building and operating private clouds
  Reduce TCO by 35% or more by relying on expert integration and on-site support by IBM. Built-in platform management and automation makes deploying application environments easy and repeatable.

The IBM Cloud Pak System (Intel & Power), Software & Software Suite V2.3.2.0 was successfully launched in March 2020, and is available in Passport Advantage. It supports a lot of new features and performance improvements:

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform V4.2 on Intel in IBM Cloud Pak System
• OpenShift Container Platform 4.x pattern types for all the Cloud Paks
• IBM Cloud Pak for Security pattern on Intel
• BYOL (Bring your own license) for all Cloud Pak patterns
• New and updated IBM Cloud Pak System user interface is available as a technology preview

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News, Events, and Conferences

• Red Hat Summit is moving to a virtual experience on April 28-29, 2020
• Think 2020 Conference is now a Digital Experience event on May 5 - May 7
• Lenovo Transform is in June at Las Vegas, USA.
• VMworld 2020 in August/September at San Francisco, California, USA.

Announcements

• The IBM Cloud Pak System (Intel & Power), Software & Software Suite V2.3.1.1 was successfully launched in December 2019. Read more
• End of support for IBM PureApplication Software V2.2.5 and V2.2.6 and IBM PureApplication Software Suite V2.2.5 and V2.2.6. Read more

For any questions or additional information, please contact Andy Harmon (daharmon@us.ibm.com)
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