Now Run IBM i & AIX Workloads in Cloud alongside Azure & AWS

Connectria, a multi-cloud management services provider, brings new services that help businesses to run IBM i and AIX workloads alongside workloads in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The new services include:

1. IBM i For Azure
2. IBM i For AWS 
3. IBM AIX For Azure
4. IBM AIX For AWS

According to the announcement, the Connectria's new services allow customers of IBM Power Systems users to move their data center workloads along with legacy applications to the cloud. The Connectria's solutions have full data migration and planning services with 24x7 managed services and security to mitigate and minimize the risks.

Connectria's TRiA solution continuously gathers data from cloud resources, monitors their security, compliance, performance, and costs. It also identifies anomalies, creates events and notifies Connectria's 24/7 Command Center when intervention is needed.  The evaluation and resolution of many events happen automatically and quickly with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities.

Executive Opinion

Connectria's President and CEO, Rich Waidmann, said, "Adding IBM i and AIX Workloads into Azure and AWS is a game-changer for customers looking to move their workloads to the cloud. Our customers want the flexibility to run the right workloads in the right clouds, but without sacrificing security, compliance, performance, or costs.  Our new solutions make this possible.  Best of all, they're available today."

Chief Operating Officer at Connectria, Rusty Putzler, said, "The vast majority of the CIOs and CTOs we talk to don't want to replace their core business applications running on IBM i or AIX, just so that they can move to the cloud. But they do want the benefits of the cloud in terms of flexibility, scalability, and avoiding capital outlays for equipment and data centers.  Our solutions enable this, and bring the benefits of AWS and Azure to IBM i and IBM AIX customers under one umbrella.

Every Connectria solution includes the TRiA Multi-Cloud Management Platform, which allows Connectria and its customers to monitor and manage all of their cloud environments from within a single dashboard. With TRiA, customers can address the three biggest challenges when running applications in the cloud: Performance; Security/Compliance, and Cost Optimization.

All four solutions for IBM i an IBM AIX are immediately available from Connectria, the announcement said.