IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations.
IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology for hunting threats, automation capabilities to speed response to cyberattacks, and the ability integrate customers’ existing point-product security-system information for better operational safekeeping – all under one roof.
IBM Cloud Paks are bundles of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform along with Red Hat Linux and a variety of connecting technologies to let enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of infrastructure, be it private or public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and IBM Cloud.
Cloud Pak for Security is the latest of six that are available today, the others being Data, Application, Integration, Automation and Multicloud Management, and they also incorporate containerized IBM middleware designed to let customers quickly spin-up enterprise-ready containers, the company said.
The Cloud Paks are part of a massive Big Blue effort to develop an advanced cloud ecosystem with the technology it acquired with its US$43 billion buy of Red Hat in July. The Paks will ultimately include IBM’s DB2, WebSphere, API Connect, Watson Studio, Cognos Analytics and more.
“The infrastructure is evolving in such a way that the traditional perimeter is going away and in the security domain, customers have a plethora of point-vendor solutions and now cloud-vendor security offerings to help manage this disparate environment,” said Chris Meenan, Director, Offering Management and Strategy, IBM Security ..
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