Cloud Service Delivery & Management
Every day, organizations are looking for ways to address fundamental questions that directly impact the success of their cloud computing initiatives:
- How do I improve utilization of resources & reduce cost?
- How do I improve the performance of infrastructure & assure service quality?
- How do I scale and accelerate deployment of infrastructure & services
- How do I ensure continued business operations, resiliency & security?
- How do I accelerate and optimize the release & deployment of applications?
IBM Cloud Service Delivery and Management solutions provide the visibility, control and automation across private, public and hybrid cloud environments needed to address the critical challenges on the road to cloud:
- Visibility: See and understand your business in real time
- Control: Transform and adapt while limiting risk
- Automation: Achieve greater efficiency & quality by standardizing best practices
SmartCloud Foundation
Only IBM cloud solutions leverage IBM SmartCloud Foundation, an integrated set of technologies for enabling private and hybrid clouds, and the virtualization, automation and management of service delivery. SmartCloud Foundation capabilities allow organizations to easily build and rapidly scale private cloud environments with unparalleled time-to-market, integration and management.
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New or enhanced SmartCloud Foundation capabilities include:
Availability & Performance:
- Cloud monitoring - monitors the health of virtualized servers, storage and network resources in the cloud
- Cloud analytics - provides predictive analysis of cloud service performance before service impact.
- Cloud storage - protects data in virtualized cloud infrastructures without impacting performance.
Management & Administration:
- Cloud provisioning - provides high-scale, low-touch provisioning of cloud images
- Cloud orchestration - automates delivery & management of IT services in the cloud
Security & Compliance:
- Cloud security - ensures access to cloud services and data is authorized and compliant.
- Identity and access - administers, secures and monitors user access to resources and provides compliance auditing
- Data and application security - protects data and applications via auditable access controls, fine-grained entitlements and encryption key management.
- Security management for z/OS - automates efficient security administration, policy-based user management, security monitoring and compliance reporting on the mainframe.
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