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Achieve cloud visibility,control and automation withIBM Hybrid Cloud Management

Organizations are under more pressure than ever to:

They are making hybrid cloud a priority:

The evolution to hybrid cloud will be rapid and wide spread:

And they are making significant investments in hybrid cloud:

Spending on cloud computing infrastructure and platforms will grow at a

By 2016

30% CAGR from 2013 − 2018

80%

of IT decision makers are planning toincrease spending on cloud computing this year.3

42%compared with 5% growth for the overall enterprise IT.2

With hybrid cloud, you can add needed business applications and integrate and scale them as needed—while maintaining:

Leading companies are turning to hybrid cloud to move with speed and agility across any combination of public, private, and on-premises cloud.

Increase the speed of service delivery

Keep pace with rapidly changing requirements of customers and employees

Maintain enterprise level control and governance over IT services

IBM is the top private cloud vendor across APAC, EMEA and North America.7

So what’s your hybrid cloud strategy? IBM can help.

Cloud computing is one of the top 3 initiativesIT executives are planning to have their organizations focus on over the next

12 months.1

2013 2016 2018... ...

Operationalvisibility Control Security

of enterprises globallywill be using IaaS

By 2018, more than 60% of enterpriseswill have at least

with investments in private cloud computing showing the greater growth.4

50%

of their infrastructure on cloud-basedplatforms.5

According to buyers, IBM ranks #1 of companies believed to be able to provide IaaS most effectively whether public or private.6

IBM is the most preferred hosted private cloud vendor among surveyed organizations utilizing a multi-vendor cloud solution.8

IBM is the most preferred vendor among surveyed organizations for the primary hosted private cloud platform.9

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1 2015 State of the Network Study, Technology Adoption Trends & Their Impact on the Network, IDG Network World2 Goldman Sachs, 2015 (need to track down original source)3 2015 Forecast Predicts Security, Cloud Computing And Analytics Will Lead IT Spending, Computerworld4 The Role of Cloud in IT Modernization: The DevOps Challenge, Ovum, November, 20145 “Digital Business, Rethinking Fundamentals”, Saugatuck Technology, an ISG business, November 20146 DC, U.S. IT Buyer Survey Shows Outsourcers Bring Strength to Cloud, doc #248127, May 20147 “IBM in TBR’s Private Cloud Customer Research”, Technology Business Research Inc., June 12, 20158 Adoption Profile: Hosted Private Cloud, North America And Europe, Q3, 2014, Forrester Research, Inc., May 4, 2015 9 Ibid

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Explore our cloud solutions designed to help you innovate quickly, enrich user experiences, make better decisions and build affordable new business models — all with the security you need — to help you get ahead of the competition.

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