IBM launches new services to help enterprises with cloud migration
Businesses are turning to the cloud as a way of coping with ever larger amounts of data. But moving to the cloud at the same time retaining control of where data resides and how it’s accessed is a challenge.
To help enterprises migrate and more easily generate business insights, IBM is announcing a range of new services on its Bluemix cloud platform.
IBM Decision Optimization on Cloud is capable of ingesting large amounts of data including predictions, master and transactional data, business goals, and business rules to prioritize and rank business decisions such as plans and schedules. It includes the CPLEX Optimizer Engines and can run as standalone, embedded in applications using a Rest API, or be used in Jupyter Notebooks within IBM's Data Science Experience.
Bluemix Lift is a data migration tool to quickly, securely and reliably migrate databases from existing on-premise data centers to IBM Bluemix and the IBM Watson Data Platform. Bluemix Lift encrypts data being transferred, helping to securely move it at a rate up to ten times faster than traditional offerings. It's also designed to minimize downtime, so that applications using the source database can run uninterrupted during migration. In addition, Lift has been designed to be highly reliable, enabling data transfers to keep flowing even during a connectivity loss.
IBM dashDB for Transactions is a fully managed SQL database service on Bluemix, optimized for transactional and web workloads to help developers fuel cloud-based applications. It's part of IBM's dashDB portfolio, offering a workload-optimized database environment designed to meet both the data warehousing and transactional needs of applications. It can be implemented on a pay-per-use basis.
"Cloud is the platform that enables cognitive intelligence," says John Murphy, vice president of the IBM Watson Data Platform. "We're continuing to grow our catalog of cloud data services on Bluemix so that we can help developers and data scientists better manage and more quickly interpret data for business innovation".
You can find out more about all of these services on the IBM Cloud Marketplace.
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