Boston, Red Hat, and WOW, What a Strategy!

We started our modernization focus about five years ago and knew selecting market leaders as our partners would be critical to our growth and success. If you look at Gartner, Forrester, or any other industry analyst, it is a no-brainer that Red Hat needs to be on your line card to help clients with their multi-cloud, orchestration, and automation journey. Our relationship has blossomed during this time, and we were recently honored with an invitation to join an exclusive round table with Red Hat executives.

What a whirlwind May was as we attended several conferences, wrapping up with Red Hat Summit. Red Hat integrated AnsibleFest into Summit this year, providing a diverse amount of sessions, including technical, strategic, and a number of customer use case sessions, which were a personal favorite.

Hybrid cloud has staying power as a popular cloud model. Research and Markets predicted that between 2022 and 2027, the hybrid cloud market will grow by more than 20% annually. Today’s companies are embracing hybrid cloud because of its flexibility, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

For today’s companies, application development, testing, and delivery is the key to staying competitive. Your business needs to speed innovative software products to the market to create better user experiences that earn customer loyalty and win over new customers. 

With today’s treacherous threat landscape, security is a top concern for every company. No matter what size a business is or what industry it belongs to, hackers can find enough value in its corporate and customer data to want to steal it. Cybercriminals can use the applications your company develops to capture and compromise data if you don’t make security part of the DevOps process.

IBM has always prided itself on staying ahead of the curve when it comes to designing technology. The arrival of the highly anticipated IBM Power10 scale-out and release of midrange servers is further proof of Big Blue’s commitment to continuous innovation.

As small and medium businesses (SMBs) adopt a cloud-first approach to technology that includes complex models, such as hybrid and multicloud, they face new challenges. These challenges include how to manage a complex and distributed infrastructure at scale, achieve end-to-end automation, and develop and test cloud-native apps.