Why use hybrid cloud with IBM?
With IBM®'s hybrid cloud computing solutions, deploy and manage your workloads across cloud and on-premises environments by using a single platform: IBM Cloud®. The underlying infrastructure of hybrid cloud services, whether it's in the cloud or on-premises, remains consistent, which helps ensure that you can design, deploy, and manage workloads in the same way regardless of where they're deployed.
Choose the location of your cloud resources that best meets your needs, like a public cloud region, a private data center, or a Satellite location. Take advantage of IBM Cloud's scalability while you maintain control of critical workloads that might need to remain on-premises.
IBM offers managed on-premises hardware solutions that fully integrate with the IBM Cloud platform. Your organization can focus on your core business while IBM takes care of hardware installation and management.
What is hybrid cloud?
Hybrid cloud is a model that combines the use of public cloud services and on-premises infrastructure. The public cloud is hosted off-premises in IBM Cloud data center locations while on-premises infrastructure runs on site at your location.
A hybrid strategy gives you the flexibility to run workloads in the appropriate environment based on cost, performance, and regulatory requirements. For example, you might use a public cloud for variable workloads that require rapid scaling and run predictable workloads on-premises.
On-premises
On-premises refers to computing resources and infrastructure that are physically located within an organization's own facilities, such as a data center or servers, storage devices and networking hardware.
On-premises solutions are often used for critical applications, sensitive data, or in industries with strict compliance and regulatory requirements.
Off-premises
Off-premises refers to computing resources that are hosted and managed outside of an organization's physical location. This typically includes cloud services that are provided by a third-party like IBM Cloud.
Off-premises solutions are commonly used for web applications, storage, disaster recovery, and workloads that require elasticity and scalability.
Core IBM Cloud services for hybrid environments
- IBM Power Virtual Server
- Install and configure Power Virtual Server Private Cloud on-premises within your data center to support critical workloads with enterprise-level reliability. Deploy Power Virtual Server off-premises for scalable cloud resources. Managing deployments to any location is a unified experience on IBM Cloud.
- IBM Cloud Satellite
- Creating a Satellite location in your on-premises data center extends IBM Cloud services to on-premises environments. This management layer allows organizations to run and manage cloud services consistently across any location.
- IBM Cloud Direct Link
- A high-speed and secure connectivity between on-premises data centers and IBM Cloud.
Your on-premises data center and IBM Cloud connect through IBM Cloud Direct Link, helping ensure secure and high-speed data transfer. IBM Cloud Satellite provides a single management interface to oversee both on-premises and cloud resources, helping ensure unified operations. With Power Virtual Server Private Cloud, you have dedicated IBM® Power Systems Hardware in your data center that integrates with IBM Cloud services.