IBM Cloud Satellite

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2021

Merge with Lumen Edge Compute

IBM announced on March 2, 2021 that the company's hybrid cloud services are now available through IBM Cloud Satellite in different environments: in any cloud, locally or on peripheral nodes. Lumen Technologies and IBM combined the capabilities of IBM Cloud Satellite and Lumen edge platforms so that customers can use hybrid cloud services in almost real time and create innovative solutions on the periphery.

IBM Cloud Satellite provides a secure and unified layer with a set of cloud services for customers, available in all environments, regardless of where their data is located. This is critical for compliance with privacy and data sovereignty requirements. Sectors of the economy such as telecommunications, finance, health and public administration will now be able to differentiate themselves from reducing network latency, combined with secure analysis of data on peripheral nodes.

Computing services related to online learning, remote work, telemedicine can be performed with greater efficiency thanks to IBM Cloud Satellite. As workloads shift toward peripheral computing, IBM Cloud Sattelite will help customers achieve low latency with the desired levels of security, data privacy, interoperability, and open standards inherent in a hybrid cloud.

IBM is also expanding its Watson Anywhere strategy by announcing IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service on IBM Cloud Satellite, which gives customers a flexible and reliable way to use analytics and AI services in any environment without having to manage this activity themselves.

Lumen, which helps enterprises move to Industry 4.0, offers IBM Cloud Satellite capabilities to its customers through the global Edge Compute platform. Combining the flexibility of deploying IBM Cloud Satellite with the availability of the Lumen peripheral platform, adaptive networking capabilities, and secure connections, Lumen customers get great choice and speed when they begin to benefit from peripheral computing services.

Using the Lumen platform and IBM Cloud Satellite, customers can deploy intensive data exchange applications (for example, video analytics) in highly distributed and remote locations, such as offices and retail spaces, and use the infrastructure designed for delays of one millisecond. Since the application can run on Red Hat OpenShift via IBM Cloud Satellite near the nearest Lumen Edge node, cameras and sensors can operate in near real-time mode, helping to improve quality and safety.

Announcing IBM Cloud Satellite Platform to Launch IBM Public Cloud Services in Data Centers

In early March 2021, IBM announced the launch of the IBM Cloud Satellite software platform, which allows enterprises to deploy services from the public cloud in their data centers.

Companies can run IBM Cloud Satellite on regular servers in their data centers or in peripheral nodes, such as factories. For hybrid use cases, cloud software can be deployed on competing IaaS platforms. Administrators can manage Cloud Satellite deployments in their companies using the same interface they use to manage workloads in the IBM public cloud. As workloads shift toward peripheral computing, the new IBM product will allow customers from different industries to achieve low latency while ensuring the desired levels of security, data privacy, and interoperability and open standards inherent in a hybrid cloud.

IBM has launched a platform that allows companies to run public cloud services in their data centers

According to IBM, the platform is based on software to automate the deployment and scaling of container applications. Kubernetes It also uses Istio mesh technology to provide networking features for applications.

With the launch of IBM Cloud Satellite, the company's hybrid cloud services are now available in different environments: in any cloud, locally or on peripheral nodes. To realize the latter task, IBM began working with Lumen Technologies to combine the capabilities of IBM Cloud Satellite and Lumen edge platforms - users will be able to use hybrid cloud services in almost real time and create innovative solutions on the periphery.

To improve data analysis efficiency, IBM developers have achieved compatibility of Cloud Satellite with Cloud Pak for Data. Cloud Pak for Data is an integrated platform for working with data and artificial intelligence, modernizing the processes of collecting, systematizing and analyzing data for the implementation of AI throughout the organization.

IBM states that companies can also run their own software tools using OpenShift.^[1]

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