In this paper we examine the relative costs and other advantages of four different cloud infrastructure approaches, two based on private or on-premises clouds and two on public clouds. These public and private approaches can in turn be combined to create a hybrid cloud deployment. The objective is to enable businesses to evaluate which cloud
The need for greater agility and access to latest innovations have driven cloud infrastructures to become increasingly attractive to organizations. Organizations migrate to the cloud to support business growth, drive digital transformations, improve development cycles and to optimize costs. During this transition, several migration and post-migration challenges emerge that increase time, risk and costs associated
Cloud infrastructure is becoming the primary deployment environment for a majority of workloads. As organizations pursue a measured approach to infrastructure and workload changes via the adoption of a hybrid cloud strategy, they’re recognizing that having the same architecture on-premises and in the cloud is important. This enables consistent infrastructure and operations across on-premises and
Two IT Leaders Describe How They Are Improving Employee Productivity with a Modern Approach to Management It can be stressful to be at the heart of your organization’s digital transformation initiatives. You’re the IT pro everyone is trusting to balance two top business priorities: maximizing end-user productivity and minimizing threats. Modern management ensures you can
What do employees want? Today, a great deal of work happens through devices, apps, and digital experiences—and people increasingly pay attention to those experiences as they decide where to work. That means IT is more important than ever in helping the business attract and retain great talent. When IT builds employee experiences that are streamlined
Trends Are Shifting, and Expectations Are Rising Over the past 10 years, the way people use technology has undergone a massive change—and the relationship between IT and end users is changing right along with it. The modern workforce is no longer content with a traditional, top-down approach to applications and devices, and that’s creating a
Flexible payment plans yield business benefits In the era of the cognitive enterprise, when business and technology architectures are merging, companies understand their success depends largely on how well they capitalize on the rapidly expanding intelligence driven by pervasive technologies. IBM’s experts in business, technology and industry use advanced technology to help you reduce cost and
Companies with multi-cloud services are outperforming their peers on a number of metrics — and achieving the key objectives that led them to the cloud services model. Take a look at the IT ecosystem of any company today and there’s a good chance you’ll find it includes offerings from several cloud services providers. That’s certainly
A multi-cloud world is quickly becoming the new normal for many enterprises. But embarking on a cloud journey and managing cloud-based services across multiple providers can seem overwhelming. Even the term multi-cloud can be confusing. Multi-cloud is not the same as hybrid cloud. The technical definition of hybrid cloud is an environment that includes traditional
Customizable payment plans from one provider to help you acquire business solutions As companies seek to innovate and transform their business by adopting the latest technologies, financial decision makers are looking for more flexible financing options to drive competitive advantage. Because traditional banks may lack information technology financing expertise, companies may be reluctant to turn