Implementation Services for Cloud

A cloud infrastructure can facilitate reduced capital and operating expenses as well as the creation of new revenue streams as a cloud service provider, helping you to stay competitive in a difficult economy. But to implement a robust cloud environment, you need to be able to properly integrate the complex hardware and software required.

IBM Implementation Services for Cloud helps you deploy an automated, security-rich cloud infrastructure that can be used for internal basic workloads or can scale to a carrier-grade cloud services platform that can enable you to more rapidly create, manage and monetize a diverse set of cloud services.

Highlights

• Helps implement a flexible cloud environment designed to reduce costs, cycle times, complexity and risk
• Helps organizations to more quickly create, manage and monetize cloud services
• Provides access to IBM specialists to help design and build an integrated cloud platform

Declining revenues and compressed profit margins are forcing you to explore new revenue opportunities and create innovative services. At the same time, you need to reduce operational and cost inefficiencies, and improve the agility of your IT environment. A cloud environment can help you meet these challenges with a range of capabilities, enabling you to accelerate time to market for new services. But implementing a comprehensive cloud platform requires extensive hardware and software integration skills.

IBM Implementation Services for Cloud offers IBM specialists to help you plan, design and implement a cloud environment that can provide on-demand provisioning of dynamically scalable, virtualized resources to help reduce costs, cycle times, complexity and risk. You can use our cloud platform for internal workloads or, by adding extensions, scale it to a carrier-grade cloud service provider platform that can be used to create and deliver cloud services. Our more holistic solution includes network, storage, security, monitoring and service level management features. We also provide access to the applications of a vast IBM Business Partner ecosystem to help you drive innovative services to market more quickly.

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