Hybrid IBM Cloud with VMware
Key Points
- The organization began on IBM’s public cloud, then adopted VMware to build a dedicated Jenzabar‑cloud on IBM using vSphere for server virtualization across multiple data centers, enabling site‑to‑site recovery.
- Their infrastructure is now almost entirely hybrid, with workloads split between on‑campus hardware and the IBM cloud, and they are nearing a four‑digit total server count.
- Client loyalty is extremely high, with a 99.4% retention rate after customers migrate to the cloud environment.
- Encouraged by this success, they are shifting further toward cloud‑native architectures and treating the cloud as a full‑stack platform for future growth.
Full Transcript
# Hybrid IBM Cloud with VMware **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-vzRFXDKU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-vzRFXDKU) **Duration:** 00:00:56 ## Summary - The organization began on IBM’s public cloud, then adopted VMware to build a dedicated Jenzabar‑cloud on IBM using vSphere for server virtualization across multiple data centers, enabling site‑to‑site recovery. - Their infrastructure is now almost entirely hybrid, with workloads split between on‑campus hardware and the IBM cloud, and they are nearing a four‑digit total server count. - Client loyalty is extremely high, with a 99.4% retention rate after customers migrate to the cloud environment. - Encouraged by this success, they are shifting further toward cloud‑native architectures and treating the cloud as a full‑stack platform for future growth. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-vzRFXDKU&t=0s) **Hybrid VMware Cloud on IBM** - The speaker explains how they built a largely hybrid, VMware‑based Jenzabar cloud on IBM Cloud—spanning multiple data centers with site‑to‑site recovery, approaching 10,000 servers, maintaining a 99.4% client retention rate, and moving toward a cloud‑native platform. ## Full Transcript
- We started with IBM cloud,
using all public cloud instances.
And as our business grew rather quickly,
we've been able to use VMware,
and basically create a Jenzabar cloud on the IBM cloud.
We use Vsphere, which is what's used to do all
the server virtualization.
We have that deployed across multiple data centers,
which enables us to do site to site recovery.
And that's a big advantage.
So our environment is almost a hundred percent
a hybrid environment.
With some servers on the campus, some servers in the cloud.
We're closing in on the four-digit server count,
and we're gonna cross that.
And again, I quite counting because the speed is so quick.
We have a 99.4% retention rate for our clients.
So after they go to the cloud, they stay there.
We're continuing to move towards cloud native,
towards the cloud as a platform.
And that's based on the positive experience we've had
running infrastructure
as a cloud on IBM cloud.