IBM Cloud

Managed Cloud Services

IBM Cloud

Managed Cloud Services

IBM Cloud

Managed Cloud Services

DNA IT manage your Cloud environment for you so your team can focus on other business centric tasks. Regardless of whether you are running Production, Backup, DR or DevOps in the Cloud, we can help you by managing all the essential but mundane and time-consuming admin tasks like patching, upgrades and systems monitoring.

DNA IT Solutions is IBM’s primary Cloud Partner in Ireland – selected based on our experience and expertise in providing customer solutions that work. We offer this enterprise cloud solution to our larger clients that have more complex requirements. We implement your transition, scoping and planning to make the transition easier.

Offering total data sovereignty
Data centres spread across the world
Data centres that are linked together
Offering flexibility and scalability
Secure and totally compliant

IBM Cloud gives you the highest performing cloud infrastructure available. One platform that takes data centres around the world that are full of the widest range of cloud computing options, and then integrates and automates everything.

Datacentre consolidation – bring all your requirements to one place
Capacity issues – burst outward with flexibility and scalability
Disaster recovery options – you pick your location for this
Current skills remain valid – we do the transition and your staff can use their existing skills to roll out with our help

CONTROL THE COMPANY YOU KEEP — PUBLIC AND PRIVATE NODE VIRTUAL SERVERS

SoftLayer virtual servers are available on public or private nodes of the IBM public cloud. Deploy a public node virtual server for workloads suited to a multi-tenant environment. Or choose a private node and your virtual server will be deployed on a host server dedicated to you, giving you the ability to consume all of the node’s hardware resources if and when your needs grow.

BARE-METAL CLOUDS DELIVER DEDICATED HARDWARE FOR LATENCY SENSITIVE WORKLOADS

Bare-metal clouds offer a way for infrastructure and operations professionals to deploy workloads that demand dedicated hardware for performance and isolation reasons with all the operational advantages of VM-based infrastructure-as-a-service cloud services. Because they eliminate the latencies associated with virtual machines and their virtualized network and I/O, one of the strongest use cases for bare-metal cloud is workloads that require the lowest latency.

A NETWORK OF NETWORKS. FAST, RESILIENT, AND SEAMLESS AROUND THE WORLD

IBM Cloud delivers unmatched scalability and control because IBM have built a different kind of network—a network of networks. Public, private, and management traffic travel across separate network interfaces, segregating and securing traffic while streamlining management. IBM’s global network boasts more than 2,000Gbps of connectivity between data centers and network points of presence (PoPs). These locations each have multiple 10Gbps transit connections as well as peering links to additional service providers and access networks.

FEATURES

WHAT IS SERVERLESS COMPUTING?

Serverless is an approach to computing that offloads responsibility for common infrastructure management tasks (e.g., scaling, scheduling, patching, provisioning, etc.) to cloud providers and tools, allowing engineers to focus their time and effort on the business logic specific to their applications or process.

The most useful way to define and understand serverless is focusing on the handful of core attributes that distinguish serverless computing from other compute models, namely:

The serverless model requires no management and operation of infrastructure, enabling developers to focus more narrowly on code/custom business logic.
Serverless computing runs code only on-demand on a per-request basis, scaling transparently with the number of requests being served.
Serverless computing enables end users to pay only for resources being used, never paying for idle capacity.

Serverless is fundamentally about spending more time on code, less on infrastructure.

UNDERSTANDING THE SERVERLESS STACK

Defining serverless computing as a set of common attributes, instead of an explicit technology, makes it easier to understand how the serverless approach can manifest in other core areas of the stack.

Functions as a Service (FaaS)

FaaS is widely understood as the originating technology in the serverless category. It represents the core compute/processing engine in serverless and sits in the center of most serverless architectures.

Serverless databases and storage

Databases and storage are the foundation of the data layer. A “serverless” approach to these technologies (with object storage being the prime example within the storage category) involves transitioning away from provisioning “instances” with defined capacity, connection, and query limits and moving toward models that scale linearly with demand, in both infrastructure and pricing.

Event streaming and messaging

Serverless architectures are well-suited for event-driven and stream-processing workloads, which involve integrating with message queues, most notably Apache Kafka.

API gateways

API gateways act as proxies to web actions and provide HTTP method routing, client ID and secrets, rate limits, CORS, viewing API usage, viewing response logs, and API sharing policies.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF SERVERLESS COMPUTING WITH KNATIVE ON THE IBM CLOUD?

In this webinar, discover how serverless with knative is a simpler, more cost-effective way of building and operating applications in the cloud.

This webinar will showcase the main advantages of choosing to run your servers applications on the IBM Cloud. You will hear experts from IBM and DNA IT outline how the IBM Cloud brings unique advantages to developers and IT teams that are testing and deploying applications in the Cloud.

There is a full Q&A session at the end of the webinar.

CAN YOU RUN LEGACY POWER SYSTEMS IN THE IBM CLOUD?

Yes you can!

DNA IT are working with the IBM Cloud to enable customers to migrate legacy IBM Power Systems running AIX and OSi5 to the IBM Cloud.

We can provide a full managed service around running Power based workloads in the IBM Cloud. Our Power systems on IBM Cloud™ is a fully managed service that leverages the enterprise scale and security of IBM Cloud, so you can focus on developing and managing your applications.

IBM Cloud gives you the highest performing cloud infrastructure available. One platform that takes data centres around the world that are full of the widest range of cloud computing options, and then integrates and automates everything.

WITH A FULLY MANAGED POWER CLOUD SERVICE YOU CAN DEPLOY THE FOLLOWING

Production systems in the Cloud – both AIX and IBM OSi5 systems
Cloud backup solutions for AIX and OSi5 systems
Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions for AIX and OSi5 systems
Test and Development Environments for AIX and OSi5 systems

WEBINARS

IBM POWER SYSTEMS IN THE CLOUD

POWER VIRTUAL SERVERS ON IBM CLOUD SERIES

WHAT IS RED HAT OPENSHIFT IN THE IBM CLOUD?

A true enterprise grade network and architecture.

Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud™ is a fully managed OpenShift service that leverages the enterprise scale and security of IBM Cloud, so you can focus on developing and managing your applications. It’s directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company®.

Top 3 Benefits Of Running Openshift On The Ibm Cloud

An Increase in Contribution from Dev-Ops
Shorter APP Development Lifecycles
Expansion to New Markets

With a fully managed OpenShift service, you can:

Enjoy dashboards with a native OpenShift experience, and push-button integrations with high-value IBM and Red Hat middleware and advanced services.
Rely on continuous availability with multizone clusters across six regions globally.
Move workloads and data more securely with Bring Your Own Key; Level 4 FIPS; and built-in industry compliance including PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC1 and SOC2.

RED HAT OPENSHIFT ON IBM CLOUD

SECURITY:

Compute isolation including bare metal worker nodes and air-gapped private clusters, KYOK with IBM HyperProtect Services using FIPS 140-2 Level 4 encryption
Compliance including GDPR, HIPAA-ready, PCI, SOC 1, SOC 2 Type 1/2

OPERATIONAL MODEL:

Highly available master nodes, multizone clusters, IBM-managed updates with zero downtime upgrades, worker node auto-scaling and auto-recovery.
Expert SRE who runs 20k clusters for highly available workload including The Weather Company, Maersk, and more.