As reported when the beta was announced last November, Cloud Cloud, part of IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy, can create a distributed cloud, meaning that public cloud services can be distributed across different physical locations while providing services.

IBM Cloud Satellite, now widely available with the combination of Red Hat Linux and the OpenShift container platform, will provide a secure, unified layer of cloud services in addition to public clouds for local data centers and also extends to perimeter networks. This allows companies to run innovative cloud-based solutions, such as IoT, on Cloud Satellite with IBM Cloud Pack, which builds on AI capabilities available in the public cloud, yet respond without delay, in near real time, or with special compliance requirements.

With its current announcement, IBM has expanded its Watson Anywhere strategy by launching the Cloud Pak for Data as a Service on the Cloud Satellite. With the solution, companies can run their AI and analytical workloads in different environments as a flexible and secure service – without having to manage it themselves.

In the telecommunications, financial, healthcare and government sectors, but also in many other industry, it is extremely important for companies to be able to analyze data at source, immediately and securely. For example, EquBot fintech has made AI models for investors that respond to changes in financial markets in less than a second instead of the previous ten seconds on IBM Cloud Satellite. And Lumen is introducing its Edge Compute platform using IBM Cloud Satellite for data-intensive applications such as video analytics for highly distributed office and commercial spaces. With such an application, companies can, for example, guard workplace safety, because the solution signals in real time when disinfection of a surface has become timely again, or people are dangerously congested somewhere.

IBM Cloud Satellite essentially provides an API for IBM Cloud customers through which they can create Stellite sites and then add hosts to them from any cloud, their own data center, or their perimeter network. IBM Cloud services are then uniformly available to users in all locations, allowing them to consistently deploy and manage their workloads in all environments.

More than sixty partner companies, including Cisco, Dell Technologies and Intel, work with Developing secure cloud services available on IBM Cloud Satellite. Infrastructure delivery partners create reference architectures covering a wide range of servers, storage, and networking solutions to make it easier for companies to create Satellite sites on their existing infrastructure. Service partners provide support for deployment and migration. IBM Cloud Satellite users also find OpenShift-certified software on Red Hat Marketplace, which also makes it easier to manage workloads.

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