IBM Cloud Satellite - Overview & Offering Benefits

IBM Cloud Satellite - ?Overview

?IBM Cloud services anywhere a client needs them, delivered as-a-service from a single pane of glass, controlled through the public cloud.

?This offering represents an important expansion of our hybrid cloud capabilities for clients, making our services available in any environment – on any cloud, on premises or at the edge. ?

• Public cloud consumption experience everywhere
• Cloud services (database, OpenShift, devOps, AI, etc) delivered on-prem and at the edge
• ?A single management and operations experience no matter the location
• Ownership, operation, governance, updates and evolution of services by a cloud provider
• ?Allowing clients to focus on their apps not ops
• ?Flexibility to run apps where it makes sense
• ?Low latency access to on-prem systems, local data processing, or local data storage, especially for AI workloads.

?IBM Cloud Satellite architecture

IBM Cloud Value Proposition

?The leading platform for developers. The Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud service was named the leader in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020. With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, OpenShift developers have a fast and secure way to containerize and deploy enterprise workloads in Kubernetes clusters. Because IBM manages OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), you'll have more time to focus on your core tasks.?

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a managed offering for creating OpenShift clusters of compute hosts to deploy and manage containerized apps on IBM Cloud. Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud provides intelligent?scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load?balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and?configuration management for your apps. Combined with an intuitive user experience, built-in security and?isolation, and advanced tools to secure, manage, and monitor cluster workloads, and rapidly deliver highly available and secure?containerized apps in the public cloud

?Offering Description

With IBM Cloud Satellite, you can create a hybrid environment that brings the scalability and on-demand flexibility of public cloud services to the applications and data that run in your secure private cloud. To achieve this distributed cloud architecture, Satellite provides an API-based suite of tools that you can use to represent your on-premises data center, a public cloud provider, or an edge network as a Satellite location. You fill the Satellite location with your own host machines that meet the minimum host requirements. Then, these hosts provide the compute power to run IBM Cloud services, such as workloads in managed OpenShift clusters or data and artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Watson.

Offering Benefits:

?1.????Bring your own infrastructure to IBM Cloud.

?With IBM Cloud Satellite, you can bring your own infrastructure that is in your on-premises data center, in public cloud providers, or in edge environments to IBM Cloud by creating a Satellite location. With this setup, you can run your workloads in the physical location of your choice to meet legal requirements, compliance standards, data speeds, and network latency requirements while securely using IBM Cloud services.

?2.?????Securely access IBM Cloud services.

?Every Satellite location is securely connected to IBM Cloud through an encrypted TLS tunnel that is provided with the Satellite Link component. By using this TLS tunnel, you can securely access IBM Cloud services in your location and use them with the same security and compliance standards as in IBM Cloud.

?3.????Control and monitor network traffic to services

?With Satellite Link, you can control network access to apps, services, and servers that run in IBM Cloud, public cloud providers, or in your on-premises data center. Configure these apps, services, and servers as sources for your Satellite endpoints. All network traffic that is sent through an endpoint is automatically captured and can be reviewed by the user.

?4.????Consistently deploy Kubernetes resources across multiple locations

Use a single dashboard to manage the deployment of Kubernetes resources across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments with Satellite Config and gain global visibility into your apps and Kubernetes operations.

?5.????Centralize your monitoring and logging.

?IBM Cloud Satellite is integrated with IBM Cloud Monitoring, IBM Log Analysis, and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker. You can view the metrics and logs for the apps that run in your location, the IBM Cloud services that you use, or the events that happen in your location from a single location.

?Value to client

• ?Achieve speed-to-value: Outcomes in as little as 2 weeks including planning, architectures and advisory services to provide installation and configuration
• Define a Distributed Application Architecture, with Data Residency requirements
• Improve business agility, operational efficiency and standardization
• Learn and adopt modern software development techniques and grow in-house skills through partnership with IBM experts and our prescriptive, guided methodology
• Adopt breakthrough technologies quickly with the benefit of hardened patterns and industry innovations, in partnership with our multidisciplinary experts

?Client Success Stories & Industry Examples

• https://newsroom.ibm.com/ATT-IBM-work-environments