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Helps implement a exible 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 prot 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.
Helping reduce costs, cycle times and complexity with cloud computing
Our basic cloud environment is designed to be exible and security-rich and can be ideal for internal enterprise workloads, such as development and testing. It is built using IBMs integrated service delivery management software and can support the integration of your legacy infrastructure and third-party applications. Our cloud infrastructure includes self-service system management tools and automated processes to help you enhance operational efficiency and more quickly achieve time-to-value.
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Why IBM?
As an industry leader in enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, IBM can deliver a comprehensive cloud solutionfrom strategy through implementationto serve your internal needs as well as help you evolve into a cloud service provider. By providing access to hundreds of independent software vendors and software-as-a-service providers through our IBM Business Partner ecosystem, we enable you to more quickly deliver innovative services to the market.
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