Rational solutions for cloud computing

Leverage the cloud. To transform software delivery.

Traditional development and testing environments pose several challenges:

High labor and capital costs
Long development cycles
Greater risk for configuration errors

To meet those challenges, IBM Rational® provides cloud computing solutions that enable IT organizations to leverage cloud computing in their development and test environments through:

Technologies to plan, build, deliver, and manage secure cloud services for software delivery
Consulting and enabling services that provide experience and expertise to transition to cloud computing for development and test workloads
Collaboration with our partners to develop and deliver value-added cloud services

Cloud computing solutions

Rational cloud computing solutions include:

Enterprise architecture management to help guide a successful transformation to cloud by providing effective cloud planning and strategy that leads to reduced risk in deployment.
Security for cloud applications to help keep cloud applications secure, protected from malicious or fraudulent use, and hardened against failure.
Test Lab Automation: Leverage the cloud to reduce installation, configuration and maintenance challenges involved in establishing and managing a test lab environment. Use the elastic and dynamic nature of cloud infrastructures to reduce the high cost of testing while facilitating more efficient and effective functional, performance and security testing.
Cloud-based software delivery solutions: offers IBM Rational software products via an agile, flexible cloud computing model, to help you simplify and streamline your operation so delivery teams can work faster no matter where they are
Deployment Planning and Automation to provide integrated design and automation for cloud application deployment, allowing architects and deployment engineers to plan, automate and govern the process of deploying complex applications.
Virtual Developer Desktops: Run Rational desktop tools, such as Rational Application Developer or Rational Software Architect on the IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud or IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud

Cloud computing software

Learn more about Rational cloud computing software:

IBM Rational System Architect® helps you link, consolidate, and analyze information spanning strategy, business architecture, information systems, and technology infrastructure.
IBM Rational Performance Tester provides you with automated performance testing capabilities to validate the scalability of web and server-based applications.
IBM Rational Software Architect with the IBM Rational Software Architect Extension for Deployment Planning helps you simplify the task of planning and communicating the deployment of your applications as well as the creation and testing of these applications to run within IBM Cloud environments.
IBM Rational AppScan® onDemand is a highly effective, outsourced, SaaS solution to identify and prioritize web application security risks in pre-production applications.
IBM Rational Build Forge® and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere® automate installation, patching, and application deployment for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal.