The effort, called IBM Cloud Private, is the latest spin on the hybrid cloud. Vendors are creating converged infrastructure, bringing managed cloud services to the data center and forging partnerships to address hybrid cloud deployments.
IBM’s approach with Cloud Private is focused on containers and an open source approach that works with multiple clouds and hardware systems as well as existing infrastructure.
- IBM Cloud Private is built on Kubernetes container architecture and supports Docker and Cloud Foundry.
- The company launched container optimized versions of its WebSphere Liberty, Db2 and MQ applications.
- IBM Cloud Private includes multi-cloud management automation, security scanning and data encryption and privileged access.
- Infrastructure choice as well as the ability to deploy with VMware, Canonical or OpenStack.
- Data and analytics services for developers.
- Support for most DevOps tools.
