IBM is introducing a new deployment option for the DB2 Analytics Accelerator on Cloud using dashDB as the acceleration engine. This provides customers with a hybrid cloud offering that gives the flexibility of running the Accelerator either on-premises or in the cloud. The Cloud deployment offers benefits like monthly pricing, hardware provisioning by IBM, and fast provisioning time. Initial focus areas include basic Accelerator functionality for offloading queries to the cloud, with a roadmap to continuously expand features and functionality.