IBM Cloud Private: A Private Cloud Story

IBM Cloud Private has been certified for primary infrastructure (server, network & storage) providers, including Dell, NetApp, Cisco and Lenovo, as well as IBM Power Systems and IBM Z. With a consistent underlying Kuberentes-based platform, IBM has enabled key elements of its existing and new middleware, data and analytics portfolio to take advantage of the platform capabilities, including rapid provisioning and de-provisioning of applications, portability between the enterprise and the cloud, improved resource usage and simplified management. Additionally, IBM provides and supports several key open source technologies, including MongoDB and Postrges. Since the platform is based on open technologies, it allows enterprises to also take advantage of a growing ecosystem of software and services that have been enabled for Kubernetes.

IBM Cloud Private is offered in three pricing tiers: Community Edition, Cloud Native and Enterprise. All three tiers provide an integrated environment for managing containers that includes the Kubernetes container orchestrator platform, a private Docker image repository, a management console, and monitoring frameworks.

• Single Platform for new cloud native application development and optimization of existing applications

• Choice of application development models for cloud native development

• Accelerate application and middleware modernization with catalog of container based

  middleware, data & analytics

• Minimize risk by reducing changes to existing applications while leveraging platform and

  middleware for availability elasticity and cost.

• Integrate within the enterprise and public cloud using the API Connectivity management

• Runs on existing hardware on premise to address security, compliance, risk and cost.