Hybrid Cloud utilizing

Red Hat OpenShift

on IBM Power
Today, enterprises have moved, or are moving, their workloads to the cloud. The most common strategy is a mixture of
on-premises and public cloud providers, or what is referred to as hybrid multicloud. Most organizations today are
already some way along this complex journey.

Businesses that are transitioning to a cloud environment should take a look at Red Hat OpenShift on IBM. Enterprise
workloads are changing and Red Hat OpenShift can help organizations with hybrid multicloud. Regardless of your
business size, the power, ease and savings that you can reap are just the tip of the virtual iceberg when you consider
the benefit and how this innovative combination can propel your business into the future.

OpenShift on IBM Power Systems takes advantage of the Hybrid Cloud Flexibility, Enterprise AI, Security and
Robustness of the POWER platform – whether on-premises private cloud or public cloud. Businesses can quickly
deploy OpenShift clusters with PowerVC on Power Enterprise Servers to incrementally modernize existing
applications. Additionally, OpenShift can be deployed on PowerVM or Red Hat KVM (development) on Power scale-out
servers to exploit the 3.2x container density advantage per core of the POWER9 multi-threaded architecture.

An Innovative Partnership
When IBM acquired Red Hat, the ability to truly harness the
power of the hybrid cloud was unlocked for all sizes of
business and industry. With the flexibility and power of Red
Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies, combined with the
depth and scale of IBM innovation, the ideal tools are now
available to facilitate your cloud journey.

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud leverages the enterprise

scale and security of IBM Cloud as a fully managed OpenShift
service. IBM has integrated OpenShift as an as-a-service
option adding unique security and productivity abilities that
save time on provisioning, scaling and updating.

As a part of the offering, IBM provides the flexibility to

manage unexpected surges and protect against attacks,
allowing development teams to be free more on creating
new competitive capabilities.
What is OpenShift? Why Use Containerization?
Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud, With the ability to move between clouds and platforms,
enterprise Kubernetes application platform containerization facilitates:
and on-premises as a service built around
Docker containers coordinated and • More with less: Fewer resources required for greater
managed by Kubernetes and founded on operational efficiency.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The graphic • Agility: Easy integration with the dexterity to incorporate
below depicts this architecture. into existing DevOps.
• Incredible speed: Quickly deliver enhancements
and functionality.
• Better security: Isolating applications from each other and
the host increases protection.
• Start-up: Easier scaling and a quicker application power up.
• Virtualize: Can work either on bare metal servers or
virtualized infrastructures.

Best IT ops experience Best developer experience

CaaS PaaS | FaaS

Cluster services Application services Developer services

Monitoring, Middleware, functions, ISV Dev tools,
showback, automated builds,
registry, logging Service mesh CI/CD, IDE

Automated operations

Enterprise Linux
CoreOS
Any infrastructure

Physical Virtual Private Public

 Maximizing Your Hybrid
Cloud Environment
Massive global change has brought hard choices.
Technical limitations shouldn’t compound them. In a
well-coordinated hybrid cloud, open infrastructure tools
give you the flexibility to scale up when customers and
teams need more, pull back when circumstances
demand it, or hold steady until conditions change.

Hybrid clouds are a combination of private and public

clouds that share data and applications between them
and are capable of utilizing the resources on either. A
multicloud is an environment that consists of more than
one cloud provider, and a hybrid multicloud is a
combination of a private and public cloud with more
than one vendor.

Red Hat OpenShift on Power Systems is an ideal building

block for your hybrid cloud environment. IBM Power
Systems are consistent across industries, deliver
outstanding workload performance and are known for
hosting mission-critical workloads.

How OpenShift Works as a Service

Kubernetes Integration Access the Integrated OpenShift Catalog

Utilize well-loved OpenShift APIs and tools for a dependable Easily deploy an array of applications utilizing a guided experience
experience, that’s consistent even when working with hybrid built into your OpenShift cluster.
environments and diverse cloud providers.
Simple to Extend Applications
End to End Application Security Use inbuilt services for logging, monitoring, storage, load
Level 4 FIPS and inbuilt industry compliance allow you to move balancing, storage and security with integrated AI with IBM Watson
workloads and more securely. APIs, IBM and Red Hat middleware.

Global Scalability Regain Time for Your Business Focus

Reliably deploy and scale workloads anywhere in the world with With the IBM, OpenShift experts on the job managing your service,
continuous availability using multizone clusters in six regions. you have the time to concentrate on your core business.
 How Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift Benefits from Open Source Complements the Power of IBM
Using Open Source adds flexibility when working in the hybrid
By forging a partnership with Red Hat, IBM can now offer
cloud. It enables IT to bridge different environments, maximizing the
customers a greater choice and flexibility. They share a vision for
benefits of each while offering the flexibility to scale to demand,
using container architecture that enables all enterprises to access
changes in industry and your own companies’ requirements.
leading technology.

Open Source invites innovation and encourages teams to easily

As seen in the diagram below, when using the OpenShift platform,
create, implement and scale applications ideal for analytics, imaging,
because it’s an extension of the IBM Kubernetes service,
and diagnostics within an infrastructure that is by nature flexible.
organizations can utilize their same API, CLI and console to
manage their community Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters. IBM
OpenShift allows you to manage complexity with automation When
has ported valuable functionality such as multicloud management,
workloads are spread across various cloud infrastructures and
data and AI services, and integration APIs from Cloud Paks to
deployments, managing with the right tools, and ensuring
OpenShift to help enterprises modernize core legacy applications.
compliance and security become a major challenge. OpenShift’s
OpenShift is the most widely deployed multicloud container
automation tools manage across all spaces turning a complex
platform and boasts powerful development and unified operations
situation into an easily supervised one.
experiences across many public and on-premises platforms.

• Manages both containers and VMs

VM-based Container- VM-based Container- • Consistent stack on-prem and off-prem
Apps based Apps Apps based Apps • Works across multiple cloud providers

Cloud Automation Multicloud

Manager Manager
VM VM VM VM
IBM Cloud Pak
For Multicloud Management

Red Hat OpenShift

Power Systems Power Systems

Public Cloud(s) Public Cloud(s)

“Manage To” Environment “Manage From” Environment

Some of the specific benefits when using Red Hat OpenShift on IBM include the following:
Simpler Migration
One of the key purposes behind OpenShift on IBM is to help organizations to establish cloud-agnostic containerized software. This gives
developers a platform that allows them to deploy bulky workloads in Kubernetes using a tool that ensures both reliability and speed.

More Innovation
The simplicity of OpenShift frees up the time of your IT staff and creates the opportunity for innovation. As they are not tied up with more
mundane tasks, they can spend more time innovating, designing new applications and updating features.

Quicker Application Development

Shorter app development lifecycles give your business the edge. OpenShift assists when it comes to taking applications to the market in a
shorter time frame.

Modernization Simplified
Modernization is a must in the current and future marketplaces. As keeping up and staying competitive are imperatives for every successful
business, and OpenShift is specifically designed to help you shift to application modernization.
Traditionally modernizing apps has been difficult and costly, usually requiring the services of a developer to complete. However, when
OpenShift is enabled its adept at modernizing apps easily with precisely and efficiently.
What do you get when you implement OpenShift with IBM?
1. Faster Development to Market Cycle
Imagine that your development team can focus what they do best, innovation. OpenShift exempts them from
spending unnecessary time deploying and managing containers so they can design and test applications and
take them to market quicker.

2. Simplified Container Process

OpenShift simplifies the process of provisioning, scaling, deploying, and managing containers and ensures
that it is efficient. It automates the management of containers, freeing up staff time that can enhance
productivity and quicken application development.

3. No Vendor Lock-in
With OpenShift you get an enterprise grade container platform that adjusts to the needs of your business.
Often vendors will lock you into a contract that makes it difficult to (and costly) to move your business if your
needs change and your vendor is unable to provide the right solution.

4. Simply Collaboration
Containerization makes testing new applications easier. OpenShift enables your staff to test apps throughout
your architecture with no issues of deployment, conflicts with the framework or discrepancies with language.

5. Integrate Tools
Incorporate the tools that you need into your operating environment with OpenShift. Instead of needing to
source tools to work with your system, just integrate the tools that you love to use and are familiar with.

6. Compliance
Industry compliance is built in including PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC1 and SOC2 Type 2.
 Join the Company of Like-Minded Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift provides a powerful, scalable Kubernetes foundation
for hybrid cloud computing use cases across industries and regions.

Financial Services
A residential mortgage company that processes 70 million records daily implemented OpenShift with IBM
to improve their risk analysis. They wanted to increase global availability, reduce costs, and accelerate
their compliance to industry regulations.

With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud available in many regions, their analysis applications were
containerized and deployed worldwide. This improved availability and complied with all local regulations.

Healthcare
A leading healthcare provider with on-premises business reporting and patient systems with slow
improvement cycles, causing sluggish patient service levels. They deployed Red Hat OpenShift on IBM
Cloud and IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery to decrease their IT expenditure and increase their
development in a secure environment.

They used the platform to address increasing labor costs because of a shrinking budget, and to move the
management of their network off premises for a streamlined operation.

Transportation
A worldwide shipping organization had a routing and scheduling system that was unable to provide the
up to the minute information that was needed by the company’s partners.

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud was able to use containerized applications that could scale according to
their business needs. They implemented data streaming from each shipping container for real time
information, digitally sharing of customs and regulatory paperwork, and an application for shipping
customers that aggregates and communicates all the required arrival information.

Hybrid cloud-ready: Now and for the future

The hybrid cloud needs of organizations today may not necessarily be the same as the needs of
tomorrow, especially as dynamic global conditions necessitate rapid changes in service delivery, scale and
composition. Red Hat OpenShift can help businesses address these challenges with the following:

Powerful new edge computing features with remote worker nodes, which extend processing power
to space constrained environments. This enables IT organizations to scale remotely while maintaining
centralized operations and management.

Key capabilities for public sector Kubernetes deployments including availability on AWS GovCloud
and Azure Government Cloud, extended OpenSCAP support and more.

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