Secure Cloud Services: IBM CloudLabs & Trusted Containers
Key Points
- IBM Cloud for Financial Services, built with Bank of America, is the first public cloud designed for the financial sector and has expanded its trusted ecosystem with over 30 new partners in three months, offering co‑creation, go‑to‑market support, and joint security/compliance management.
- IBM CloudLabs now provides free, browser‑based Kubernetes training on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, letting users spin up a one‑node cluster for three hours, complete five interactive labs, and earn a certification badge without any downloads.
- A new collaboration among NIST, IBM, Red Hat, and Intel created a hardware‑root‑of‑trust, OpenShift‑based container platform that guarantees workload integrity, confidentiality, and key protection for regulated and sensitive applications.
- All announcements include links for deeper information and how organizations can join the financial services ecosystem, start the CloudLabs tutorials, or explore the trusted container platform architecture.
Full Transcript
# Secure Cloud Services: IBM CloudLabs & Trusted Containers **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlE09pE_cs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlE09pE_cs) **Duration:** 00:02:40 ## Summary - IBM Cloud for Financial Services, built with Bank of America, is the first public cloud designed for the financial sector and has expanded its trusted ecosystem with over 30 new partners in three months, offering co‑creation, go‑to‑market support, and joint security/compliance management. - IBM CloudLabs now provides free, browser‑based Kubernetes training on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, letting users spin up a one‑node cluster for three hours, complete five interactive labs, and earn a certification badge without any downloads. - A new collaboration among NIST, IBM, Red Hat, and Intel created a hardware‑root‑of‑trust, OpenShift‑based container platform that guarantees workload integrity, confidentiality, and key protection for regulated and sensitive applications. - All announcements include links for deeper information and how organizations can join the financial services ecosystem, start the CloudLabs tutorials, or explore the trusted container platform architecture. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlE09pE_cs&t=0s) **Secure Cloud for Financial Services** - The episode announces IBM's industry‑first, encryption‑certified Cloud for Financial Services and its expanding partner ecosystem, introduces free, interactive Kubernetes tutorials through IBM CloudLabs, and highlights policy‑driven governance on a trusted container platform. ## Full Transcript
The growing ecosystem of IBM Cloud for Financial Services,
a free way to learn Kubernetes with IBM CloudLabs,
and policy-based governance in a trusted container platform
- all on this episode of IBM Cloud Now.
Hey everyone, I'm Ian, and I'm excited to be back to bring you the latest and greatest
news and announcements from IBM Cloud.
Last year, in collaboration with Bank of America,
IBM designed an industry-first platform called
IBM Cloud for Financial Services
that leverages the highest levels of encryption certification.
Essentially, it's the world's first financial services-ready public cloud.
In addition to offering a secured cloud platform,
we believe it is equally important to build a trusted ecosystem around it.
That's why we're thrilled to announce that more than 30 partners have joined our ecosystem
in the past three months alone.
Together, we're working to create a secure financial services ecosystem
where banks, ISV partners, and SaaS providers
can define and monitor their security and compliance obligations
and transact with confidence.
We also provide a wide variety of co-creation opportunities,
selling networks,
and personalized go-to-market support for our partners.
If you're interested in learning more about the opportunities and how your company can
join the ecosystem, see the link in the description below.
Next up, I want to talk about IBM CloudLabs,
a really cool new set of interactive Kubernetes
tutorials that are completely free to use.
IBM CloudLabs offers hands-on,
browser-based training for deploying and operating
one free cluster on the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for 3 hours.
No downloads or configuration required.
All the tools you need are embedded right in the terminal in the browser.
In just 3 easy steps, you can earn a certification badge.
Just sign up for a free IBM Cloud account,
complete the tutorial coursework
through 5 interactive labs,
and then put your knowledge to the test by taking a quiz.
And that's it!
It's a fantastic way to get some hands-on experience
with operating Kubernetes on IBM Cloud,
- and who doesn't like a good certification badge for their efforts?
To learn more about this free opportunity, click on the link I've got below.
Finally, to close out this episode,
I wanted to touch on a partnership between NIST, IBM,
Red Hat, and Intel
to build a trusted container platform based on OpenShift.
The platform ensures that workloads are run on trustworthy nodes,
with integrity established
via hardware root of trust.
It also protects workload confidentiality and keys,
which is really important when dealing
with regulated or sensitive applications and data.
This is the first demonstration
of a container platform with this level of assurance
and it's really interesting and innovative stuff.
If you check out the linked article below,
you can learn more about the building blocks
and architecture for this trusted container platform.
Thanks for joining me today for this episode of IBM Cloud Now.
If you're interested in learning more about the topics I've covered,
make sure you explore the links in the description of this video.
And, of course,
please don't forget to subscribe to our channel to stay up-to-date
on what's going on in the cloud, now.