Cloud Models Enable Organisations To Embrace Digital Transformation: Vikas Arora, Country Manager, IBM Cloud, India/ South Asia
IBM estimates, companies will spend more than $100 billion in each of the next three years to create private clouds. Vikas Arora, Country Manager, IBM Cloud, India/ South Asia talks to BW Businessworld about cloud helping the businesses, and IBM Cloud Private supporting developers and enterprises. Edited Excerpts:
How will businesses gain from cloud service?
It comes as no surprise that enterprises are now in search of higher value services from cloud, so they can tap new technologies to win in today’s market. Enterprises need more than just productivity and cost saving perks. They want a cloud that can turn increasing volumes of structured and unstructured data into easily accessible insights and help them continually improve customer experiences and applications by infusing cognitive and AI. The most innovative companies are using the cloud to move into new industries, transform customer experiences, develop new revenue sources, and invent new business models.
IBM Cloud has been built to help companies solve problems, innovate and advance opportunities in the data driven economy. We help companies protect data, move it, integrate it, and unlock intelligence from it — giving insights to companies thereby helping them with a clear competitive advantage in the market.
How will the cloud service help SMBs?
SMBs have an enormous opportunity to leverage cloud computing to drive innovation and improve their competitive position. Cloud computing—whether private, hybrid or public—enables organizations to be far more agile while reducing IT costs and operational expenses. Cloud models enable organisations to embrace the digital transformation necessary to remain competitive in the future.
With the cloud, SMBs can leverage the same technologies as much larger organizations without the burden of investing in expensive data center resources and highly skilled IT personnel. IBM Cloud offers enterprise grade capabilities to SMBs, built to derive value from their data and possess cognitive abilities coupled with strong security and compliance capability.
What are the key differentiators in the recently launched IBM Cloud Private?
Few of the key differentiators for IBM Cloud Private (ICP):
How will developers benefit and what will their role be in the new IBM Cloud offering?
IBM Cloud Private makes it easy to access operations consoles and an app catalogue of IBM and third-party software. It allows developers to containerise these legacy apps as cloud native apps that run behind the firewall. It also allows developers to build their code faster and match the demand for innovation by providing access to cutting-edge development tools. Developers get seamless compatibility with new or existing systems from every major hardware vendor for the industry’s broadest coverage and can be deployed by the client on new or existing systems.
IBM estimates companies will spend more than $100 billion a year for the next three years to create private clouds. The key to the shift is retaining control over data and apps behind the firewall, while making the experience for developers and IT staff identical to the public cloud.
How is IBM Cloud Private enabling the shift of enterprise apps to cloud native?
IBM Cloud Private delivers flexibility of open-source container technology for working across different clouds and extensive integrations with the databases, software and hardware required to support both new and existing apps. IBM Cloud Private allows companies to create cloud environment behind their firewalls to maintain control of data and workloads while gaining the agility to quickly launch and update apps. At the same time, IBM Cloud Private is built on Kubernetes-based container architecture widely used in public clouds to allow seamless migration of workloads to public clouds as needs change.
How is IBM enabling its own developer community (IBMers)- The New IBM at the forefront of digital transformation?
IBM has been focusing on developers to lead disruption in the cognitive era and has been ramping up its engagement for the developer community as part of our focus on reskilling and upskilling on the latest technology advancements. As an organization, IBM is constantly increasing the benchmark to engage with the developer community and employees. Co-creation and Co-learn is a way of life and a 'co-create and co-learn bring out the entrepreneur in an employee.
We work closely with the larger developer ecosystem and have launched various programs and initiatives to help them prepare for the new-collar jobs. We conduct regular workshops and developer events to help them learn from IBM experts and get access to our technology. We believe developers can solve some real- world challenges. It is imperative for us to nurture the developers of today to build next-generation products.
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