Cloud is at the heart of IBM’s global growth strategy. We see cloud not only as a means to rethink IT but also as a means to help reinvent business.

However, cloud is a ‘how’ not a ‘what’ and needs a flexible approach. Where you start your journey depends on your business needs. The idea is to strike a balance between being equipped to achieve short-term goals, and being prepared to take advantage of future opportunities. IBM works with clients to both achieve better, more agile IT and to apply the transformative power of cloud computing to reinvent the way they do business. In this regard, IBM cloud solutions help clients:

• create new business value by empowering internal and external communities to define and create new offerings and services
• improve speed and dexterity by delivering new offerings and services more rapidly through new models of self-service and deployment
• deliver IT without boundaries by enabling new IT and business processes that break down traditional silos and simplify access to information in order to deliver better business outcomes

IBM offers a comprehensive set of capabilities for enterprises that fall under three main headings;

• IBM SmartCloud Foundation is a set of technologies that serve as the underpinnings of cloud computing – the foundations of building and deploying  private or hybrid cloud
• IBM SmartCloud Services are platform and infrastructure capabilities delivered as a service on cloud, for example to deploy applications in minutes versus weeks, while accessing advanced administration and management control.
• IBM SmartCloud Solutions are a suite of software capabilities available on the cloud, ranging from collaboration to business process management and web analytics

Underpinning the above is a consistent cloud reference architecture and a holistic and robust security framework.

80% of Fortune 500 companies use IBM cloud capability.
IBM worked on over 2000 cloud engagements in the first 6 months of 2011 alone.

Individual cases studies are constantly updated on our global and UK webpages

aatranslations adopted cloud to help deal with huge volumes of highly sensitive commercial information for household names.  Since then, over 500 of their clients and contractors have enjoyed easier collaboration, and a level of security that classic email attachments or Internet file sharing sites could not equal – without the worry of firewalls. aatranslations are a pan-european provider of language translation services.