Madrid, January 26 , 2021 – Telefónica and IBM today announce Cloud Garden 2.0, the next phase of Telefónica’s cloud services platform, designed to accelerate the modernization of applications. Cloud Garden 2.0 is an open hybrid cloud platform built on top of Red Hat’s OpenShift and the IBM Cloud Pak. Now, Telefónica customers can take advantage of this technology to create and manage their container-based applications in a much easier way, as well as simplify and accelerate the implementation of new solutions.
The TIREA consortium (Information Technologies and Networks for Insurance Entities) is developing a new service offering based on Cloud Garden 2.0 to accelerate the digital transformation of the insurance sector.
According to a recent IBM study , the majority of Spanish executives (68%) consider that in the next two years the modernization of their infrastructures will be prioritized as part of the digital transformation of their organizations. Specifically, 82% say that in two years cloud computing will become a priority – compared to the current 68% – and 66% highlight Artificial Intelligence – compared to the current 40%. Spanish executives foresee that in the next two years they will apply automation technologies to all business functions, but especially in purchases, risks, supply chain and R&D.
“We are very happy to have been able to count on the right partners to improve the service and offer the business environment the speed, flexibility and decision-making capacity they need to quickly modernize and launch innovative digital services to their users and customers,” said Andrés López Hedoire, Director of Business Product Marketing at Telefónica de España.
Cloud Garden 2.0 accelerates how customers can create next-generation applications that improve the quality and efficiency of core business operations, from customer applications to mission-critical back-end processes. The platform enables customers in all industries to reduce the complexity of their development process and quickly bring innovative services to market that can be deployed in any on-premises or cloud environment.
With the integration of IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift, clients like TIREA are able to reduce the complexity of their development processes and quickly bring new services to market in any cloud environment. IBM Cloud Pak also includes a number of programs that ease the transition to cloud-born development environments such as MongoDB, Red Hat JBoss, Red Hat AMQ, IBM WebSphere Liberty, and Redis, among others.
Cloud Garden 2.0 is housed in Telefónica’s Virtual Data Center, located in Spain, which helps its clients to experience connectivity with low latency and greater speed in the execution and management of their applications.
“IBM is working with Telefónica to take advantage of the hybrid cloud and AI in its offerings to companies. Cloud Garden 2.0 is the result of a long relationship with Telefónica to offer the latest innovations through an open and secure platform that is built for the main business applications and that will accelerate modernization for customers throughout Spain ”, says Javier Valencia, Vice President of Technology at IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel.
“Companies in Spain are forced to launch new products and services more quickly. Cloud Garden 2.0, developed with Red Hat OpenShift, offers the possibility of bringing together application innovation in a single hybrid cloud platform, allowing companies focus on offering differential experiences to their customers, “says Julia Bernal, general manager of Red Hat Spain and Portugal.
Telefónica’s cloud services are part of the company’s strategy for the business market and its digital transformation under the Telefónica Empresas brand, which includes a unique proposal supported by 6 large business areas: connectivity, cloud, IoT, security, big data and digital workplace. Telefónica Empresas offers a centralized service offer from start to finish for each of the projects.
