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Designing and building a cloud environment can be a daunting task. You want to make sure you choose the best delivery model and workloads to migrate to the cloud. And then cloud implementation can take a significant commitment of time and resources.

Let IBM’s cloud specialists help you accelerate your adoption of cloud. We can apply our IBM Research-developed tools to help you develop your strategy. With our established methods and extensive expertise, we can also help you build and deploy a cloud environment.

Design a cloud

Strategy and design services for a cloud infrastructure
Uses our unique cloud adoption framework and the IBM Cloud Workload Analysis Tool to help you analyze your existing environment and determine the cloud computing model best suited for your business.
IBM Workload Transformation Analysis for Cloud
Applies our patent-pending analytics to help you identify the workloads that will migrate easiest to the cloud and improve your return on investment.
Network application optimization for cloud computing
Delivers insights on the infrastructure characteristics that impact application performance in a cloud computing environment and helps you prioritize applications that are best suited for migration.
Network infrastructure optimization for cloud computing
Helps assess your network's readiness to support your plans for cloud computing.
Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) – strategy and assessment
Applies IBM’s tools, methodologies and key capabilities to help you plan, design and transition to an optimized cloud-based UC model.
Cloud security assessment
Helps you gain an in-depth understanding of the current state of your cloud solution's security controls, mechanisms and architecture. Also, can identify steps to improve your overall security posture.
Cloud security strategy roadmap
Guides you through the security and privacy concerns of your cloud computing initiative to help you build a security-rich cloud strategy roadmap.

Build a cloud

Private cloud implementation services for System z
Enable a faster, more efficient deployment of a Linux-based cloud on z/VM
Design and implementation services for a private unified communications cloud
Helps you implement a security-rich solution that can reduce the costs and complexities of managing your collaboration tools while improving the productivity and collaboration of your workforce.
Application and network performance optimization for cloud computing
Delivers applications with the degree of scalability and performance required for cloud computing as well as enables the levels of security and resiliency you need. Includes planning and deployment of technology and traffic management techniques to help you make applications available to end users on demand.
IBM Implementation Services for Cloud
Plan, design and implement a cloud environment that can be used for internal workloads or scale to a carrier-grade cloud service provider platform.
SmartCloud Entry implementation services for Flex System
Install and configure IBM SmartCloud Entry on IBM Flex System to more quickly deploy a private cloud
SmartCloud Entry implementation services for Power Systems
Implement IBM SmartCloud Entry on your IBM Power Systems more quickly

Migrate to cloud

Migration Services for SmartCloud Enterprise+
Identify the right workloads to migrate and use time-tested migration methods to help you achieve a faster, more cost-effective workload migration to IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+