ERP Deployments Shift Cloudward, Even On IBM i
Slow and steady growth of IBM i cloud deployments mean customers feel more comfortable running critical business applications in the cloud While more IBM i shops are transitioning to the cloud environments, the percentage of them that involve production business applications or ERP systems is still relatively small. When business-critical systems are in the cloud, they’re much more likely to run in private clouds – or better yet, in a co-lo setup where the customer’s Power Systems server is moved into the private cloud provider’s data center. Most IBM i shops moving to the cloud prefer the PaaS approach, especially when it comes to for business-critical workloads, says Patrick Schutz, the chief sales officer of Abacus Solutions, which runs hundreds of IBM i environments in its private cloud. What I’ve seen from the other providers is they’re trying to do more of an IaaS offering and trying to do it from a quantity. We provide platform as a service. You’r...