How IBM Research Is Differentiating Its Hybrid Cloud Platform with AI

AI has already begun to automate many non-mission critical business processes, including aspects of customer service and human resources. As the technology advances, new opportunities continue to emerge, in particular AI's ability to automate the movement to, and management of mission-critical workloads on hybrid cloud environments. Many businesses--especially those in highly regulated industries such as telecom, financial services and healthcare--are hesitant to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. In fact, data from multiple sources reveals that only 20 percent of all workloads have moved to the cloud. Businesses further along in their journey understand the benefits of cloud use and often have already turned to the cloud for non-mission critical workloads. The accelerated proliferation of mission-critical applications--combined with the fact that more than 70 percent of organizations using public cloud are working with multiple vendors--means companies must approach the migration of these applications to a hybrid cloud environment using a four-phased approach: advise, move, build and manage.