3 Highlights of IBM Think 2020: The Race with VMware, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Is On

In this time where COVID-19 dominates business and personal conversations, Arvind Krishna (IBM’s new CEO) masterfully and sincerely took on his opening keynote of IBM Think 2020. He believably positioned Big Blue as the company that helps enterprises create the technological capabilities to quickly adjust to unexpected business challenges that “move the goal posts”. Here are my personal Top 3 highlights from Think 2020:

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Top 3 Highlights of IBM Think 2020

IBM Cloud Satellite: Develop Once, Run and Manage Anywhere

IBM Cloud Satellite is a unified platform for developers and operators to consistently deploy and manage IBM Cloud services in the corporate data center, the public cloud, and at the edge. This is exciting as it enables developers to write their applications and microservices based on one or more of IBM’s pre-packaged cloud services and deploy them to any location without changes to the application or configuration code. Ultimately, this will bring unified observability and control across typically fragmented enterprise application and cloud environments. Remember that developers and IT operators alike are still spending about half of their work time on tasks that only exist because of inconsistencies in infrastructure and application deployments. IBM’s vision of creating unified bridgeheads, or better satellites, that provide a fully consistent runtime that includes access to the wide portfolio of IBM Cloud services on the one hand and that are subject to continuous and declarative control by the “mothership” on the other hand, has the potential of unlocking all of this wasted developer and operator time that could then be spent on building better products and services for end customers. Very exciting indeed.

Take a look at highlights 2 and 3 on my personal blog.

Topic Map of Arvind Krishna’s Think 2020 keynote.