IBM Cloud Boosting its Presence in India

IBM Cloud is changing not just business, but also society. IBM’s cloud is the platform for the next era of business as it can help companies do things never done before. It enables you to make architectural decisions and determines how a company runs – Ginni Rometty, IBM’s Chairman, President and CEO

Today, with 55+ cloud centers in 19 countries; IBM Cloud is the leader in Enterprise Cloud. There are currently 4,000 different start-ups utilizing on IBM Cloud.  IBM runs more than 100 billion transaction a day on IBM systems and offers 160+ cloud services across cognitive, IoT, blockchain, data, etc. The reality is that no one has more experience and knowledge across industries than IBM. We offer a balanced platform, anchored by public, private and hybrid offerings, combined with the ability to deliver higher value cognitive services. AI, IoT, data analytics and blockchain, for us, are not added features, but are core to our cloud platform.

What differentiates IBM Cloud?

IBM Cloud is built as one architecture, with three pillars that underscore why the IBM platform is for the new era of business. Our key differentiators are having:

• Enterprise strong because you got to be strong public cloud but designed for industries, choice and consistency, industrialized hybrid and more secure than even on-prem and very solid roadmap and pipeline of innovation for the future. IBM cloud platform delivers the scale and security required by businesses of all sizes. With over 51 data centers present in 20 countries, IBM is one of the few cloud platforms with the largest footprint. IBM hybrid cloud let customers run sensitive workloads on-premises while moving a few applications to the public cloud.
• IBM Cloud offers data-first architecture that doesn’t use customer data stored in the cloud for commercial purposes. IBM Cloud is better at keeping local data local, as required by some countries’ privacy and sovereignty laws. IBM Data first approach has two big tenets to it - one is Data diversity and other is Data control. IBM gives its customers access control, data locality – who is using it, where and how and data isolation.
• To us - Cognitive is not a feature,It is foundational to IBM Cloud and IBM. It is embodied in IBM Watson. Cognitive is not just about looking at the data and understanding it. It is about having all the senses that human beings have– the ability to look at images, we can describe what is inside the image, whether it is melanoma – we can describe it with 95% of accuracy. In speech recognition, Watson is 5.5% accurate which is almost equal to human accuracy. 

With a vision to be the preferred digital transformation partner for its clients, partners and the ecosystem in India, IBM is at the forefront, helping businesses bring their technology aspirations to life. Today, all the conversations with businesses are ‘Cloud First’ – from solution to Delivery. Outlined are some recent examples of clients who have adopted IBM Cloud to fuel their digital transformation journey in India.