IBM i presents many hybrid cloud opportunities that you can take advantage of for your company’s IT environment. IBM i is a turnkey operating system that comes with automatic self-care wizards to handle all system administration, common system maintenance, ordering of servicing and spare parts, and failure detection. This allows your IT department to have minimal maintenance and upkeep responsibilities so that they can be free to work on the projects you need completed for production.

By setting up a hybrid cloud, which combines a private cloud hosted on local infrastructure at your site with public cloud services hosted by a third party, you can take full advantage of the capabilities of this powerful computing environment. Through your IBM i-based private cloud you can host critical workloads or any sensitive data. Having virtualized hardware in the public cloud will enable you to scale up your resources as needed without having to worry about hardware procurement or maintenance, making it perfect for overflow work, storage, and other less critical computing needs.