IBM Certified Containers
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IBM Certified Containers
IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Certified Containers are deployable software that is available in the IBM Cloud Private Catalog. IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Certified Containers meet specific criteria for the packaging and deployment of containerized software. They are built with open standards and are integrated with platform services for management and lifecycle operations. IBM Certified Containers on Red Hat OpenShift offers a consistent Hybrid Cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Built with the industry-leading managed Kubernetes service, Red Hat OpenShift provides speed and agility for discerning customers looking for quick-paced development processes, while also bringing significant savings in IT operational costs for existing customers through containerized architecture models.
- Speed - Innovate at scale by increasing the number of major features developed per year by 36%*, shortening development and release cycles by 66%* and accelerating time to market by 80%*.
- Simplicity - Administrators can use containerized technology on-premises or in a third-party cloud of their choice, and make use of built-in, standardized best-of-breed tools, visualization and a graphical interface to simplify application deployment, monitoring, logging and security.
- Portability - Run applications on-premises, private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures – with the freedom to choose among cloud service providers including IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google and Edge.
- Ease - In a matter of minutes versus weeks, system administrators can easily deploy software in a repeatable container-based model using Red Hat OpenShift. Build once and deploy anywhere.
- Control - Achieve no or low downtime and improved customer experience as failure in one container will not impact operations of all applications. Teams can isolate the point of failure and work to resolve
- Cost-savings - Lower cost with integrated tools and scripts that provide agility and auto-scaling.
- Best-in-class - Benefit from IBM and Red Hat guidance and built-in proven methods in security, availability and visibility to reduce risk. Adopt open technologies with confidence using a solution that provides a set of validated, container-based open source tools
Use Cases – IBM Certified Containers on Red Hat OpenShift
Retail Services
In order to improve capacity at scale, while reducing resource expense, the largest North American supply company selected IBM to containerize their applications. Red Hat OpenShift can help reduce 35% of IT staff time per application instance.
Manufacturing
An American Fortune 100 corporation, which is the world’s largest construction equipment manufacturer, was looking to modernize their operations with a focus to lower costs and speed time to market. Using Red Hat OpenShift, they expect to gain up to a 60% increase in IT administrator efficiencies.
Food Services
The largest grocer in the United States needed to be able to support exponential growth. Scalability and resilience were equally important. IBM collaborated on a four-week proof-of-concept which confidently demonstrated self-healing and autoscaling abilities. Red Hat OpenShift can enable 80%+ faster time to market.
Financial Services
A multinational investment bank and financial services company wanted to drive budget expenses down, keep up with the competition and consolidate data centers. They used IBM-certified containers to help them achieve their goals. They estimate deploying with Red Hat OpenShift can lower IT infrastructure and development costs by 35%
IBM Certified Containers - FAQ's
An IBM Certified Container meets standard criteria for packaging and deployment of containerized software with platform integrations. The IBM Certified Container meets the following criteria: Secured: Manages container image vulnerabilities.
IBM certified containers help organizations evolve from on-premises deployments without adding complexity and cost. Build once and deploy anywhere, leverage an open and integrated approach, and take advantage of best practices from IBM and Red Hat experts, a graphical interface and visualization.
Verifies compatibility through test integration. Provides support from cloud platform, platform services and software (for products with commercial licenses with support and subscription) Accelerates a client to a production topology through out-of-box integrations with additional management services.
