IBM has launched two new services with an aim to bring more businesses to the cloud.

Currently, many businesses are stuck with legacy systems that make it difficult to migrate to the cloud, and as a result, they miss out on the benefits that come with cloud. To overcome this limitation, IBM has come up with two services that will make this migration easy.

These two processes are IBM Cloud Migration Services and IBM Cloud Deployment Services. Cloud migration services, as the name implies, helps businesses to get ready to move to the cloud. In this service, IBM works with you to identify your existing IT infrastructure and your goals, and based on this, they create a plan to help you migrate to the cloud.

Cloud deployment services, on the other hand, is an automated service hat eases the deployment process. Essentially, it models infrastructure and application solutions and repeats this pattern to automate the entire process.  This product is available for public and hybrid cloud providers, including non-IBM products and services.

So, how are these services different from the large repertoire of services that IBM currently offers?

The biggest advantage is that these services make it a lot less expensive and easy for companies to orchestrate their workloads, regardless of the underlying cloud delivery model. The cloud deployment services, in particular, are a next generation set of tools that can automate based on the existing workflows. As a result, the service provisioning time including the time it takes to design, build and deploy is greatly reduced.

Another advantage is that all these services are tied with Watson, so businesses can leverage the power of this cognitive platform as well. This means, over time, the system can learn from patterns and predict behavior and solutions. It can be most helpful for identifying problems, self learning, self healing and avoiding disruptions to existing services.

From IBM’s perspective, both these services are the perfect addition to its existing portfolio of products and services. With more such innovative products, IBM could expand its client base, especially in emerging markets in the Asia Pacific region where the potential for cloud services still remains huge.

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