Digital transformation matters more than ever. The right choice of platform can be a competitive advantage when used as a design principle to embed security, resiliency and flexibility into the multi-cloud environment, from the core to the edge.
That’s why today’s most important workloads shouldn’t run on just any cloud, says Tarun Chopra, director of Offering Management at IBM Z. He will be presenting a keynote speech at the IBM ITWeb Cloud, Data Centre & DevOps Executive Roundtable, happening on 26 February at Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff, situated in Westcliff.
This C-level event, facilitated by CNBC Africa anchor Fifi Peters, has as its theme "Conquer challenging workloads with open and flexible hybrid multi-cloud solutions". Delegates will look deeper into how businesses can build new cloud-native applications, modernise apps in place, and integrate workloads across their clouds on IBM infrastructure.
Chopra will demonstrate how businesses can overcome the day-to-day workload challenges with hybrid multi-cloud technologies, ensuring that the privacy of all client data is secured throughout the enterprise and ecosystem, and meeting all company policies and regulatory requirements with configurable and verifiable automation.
Other challenges, he says, include the fact that service windows are shrinking and more applications are considered mission critical, meaning security patches need to be applied more frequently and SLA agreements maintained.
“Cloud deployments can multiply vulnerability points and available vectors to attack your data,” he says.
When choosing from the wide array of solutions and technologies available, businesses need to consider some key questions to ensure that the solution meets the demands and requirements of today's complex workloads.
According to Chopra, some questions to consider are:
- How the solution maintains full control of data in a cloud infrastructure and multi-data centre environments;
- How it handles the daunting challenge of protecting customers' data privacy and mitigating the effects of data breaches;
- How it maintains compliance in an increasingly stringent regulatory environment;
- Whether or not it guarantees the availability of mission-critical applications; and
- How it deals with the cost of huge data growth.
IBM says its enterprise cloud platform addresses these challenges and more: the IBM z15 delivers the platform for a hybrid cloud that has the power, the availability, the agility, the speed users demand and the security users and regulators require, along with operational efficiencies. In addition, it delivers the data privacy and business continuity for mission-critical cloud workloads.
“IBM z15 is built for a secure, always-on world because clients need assurance that their data is safe, and services are always on and fulfilled instantly,” adds Chopra.
For more information and to register to attend the IBM Executive Roundtable, go here.
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