Hybrid Cloud is our contribution to world

New Delhi: As Indian organisations of all sizes fasten their journey to digital transformation, they will need a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure that is open by design, avoids vendor lock-in and affords seamless interoperability and portability between environments. Here, IBM is their natural choice as "Hybrid Cloud is our contribution to the world", said Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India/South Asia.

In a free-wheeling interview, Patel said that as organisations progress their hybrid and multi-cloud journeys, their focus will shift towards determining which workloads go where.

"Pick any private bank in India. It will have Office 365 delivered through Microsoft Azure Cloud. Then they have some applications like HR, payroll, CRM/ERP and other standard operations on AWS or Google Cloud or some other provider. To achieve synergies and efficiencies across operations, it will probably have a Private Cloud that covers treasury operations, etc. This collectively is the bank's Hybrid Cloud infrastructure," explained Patel.

For Hybrid Cloud, "IBM has always been the leader," he added. The company last year launched IBM Cloud Satellite to boost its Hybrid Cloud ambition in the country. IBM Cloud Satellite is a unifying layer of cloud services, available across all locations, to offer businesses high levels of control over critical data delivered via IBM Cloud, regardless of where their data resides. According to Patel, the Indian enterprises are evaluating the migration of more mission-critical, complex workloads as they embrace modernisation.

"In the year ahead, they will need to take inventory of their IT environments to select which workloads and applications are best suited for the cloud and which should remain on-premises," he emphasised. IBM is working with Parle, the largest selling biscuit brand in India, to help it more quickly and effectively bring its products to market by leveraging IBM Cloud.

Bangalore International Airport Limited is working with the company and its spin-off Kyndryl to create a new "Airport in a Box" platform that will support transforming the end-to-end travel experience for passengers.