Tag: IBM

We are excited to highlight 154 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in April for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These specializations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Virtual machines remain a crucial part of many IT environments due to the long-term and substantial investments made by companies. Experts from IBM Consulting and AWS share how running VMs on top of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS offers several benefits, including integrated management, migration and modernization, and improving developer productivity. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an enterprise-grade feature that makes it easy to deploy and manage VMs on OpenShift.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency, which helps customers advance their time to results, optimize operations, seek new revenue streams, and/or generate sustainable business operations, while reducing their carbon footprint. Previously the AWS Industrial Software Competency, the expanded AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency includes new use case categories to further differentiate partners and help customers and sellers find the right solution for their business needs.

Today’s rapidly changing market conditions require organizations to scale IT operations swiftly and securely, while keeping costs under control. But setting up, running, and optimizing cloud infrastructure can be time-consuming and challenging. We’re excited to announce the AWS Cloud Operations Competency, to help customers adopt an integrated approach for cloud operations on AWS and beyond.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

IBM and Amazon are both signatories of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of The Paris Agreement. Learn how SaaS providers can optimize applications by implementing best practice recommendations from AWS, and review a few examples from IBM to optimize SaaS applications for sustainability and track the results via dashboard. Every action you take contributes to your organization’s broader sustainability goals.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN blog posts and case studies we shared in 2022. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community of partners who leverage AWS to build, market, and sell customer offerings. AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help customers take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate their journey to the cloud.

Many IBM Db2 customers are exploring modernizing their databases by moving them into a containerized environment such as Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS, or IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data. Getting to the end goal of containerizing your database takes a lot of time and effort. To streamline this process, IBM has developed a new utility called Db2 Click to Containerize (also known as Db2 Shift) to help customers move their databases quickly and easily from an on-premises Db2.

IBM Consulting Platform Services on AWS enables intelligent application management in the AWS environment. It empowers IT leaders, developers, and site reliability engineers with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered management of complex hybrid and cloud-native enterprise applications. Learn how IBM Consulting Platform Services on AWS is built using AWS-native services, helping enterprise customers embrace the new cloud operating model by streamlining Day 2 operations.

Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent, the 2022 AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of AWS Partners which have embraced specialization, innovation, and collaboration over the past year. AWS Partner Awards honor partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers. Please join us in congratulating these top AWS Partners who are dedicated to helping customers build, market, and sell their offerings so they can grow successful cloud businesses.