CAST and IBM Help Enterprises Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
05 August 2021 - 2:00PM
Today, IBM and CAST, provider of software intelligence for digital
leaders, announced new capabilities in CAST Highlight - the
software intelligence product for rapid application analysis - to
help enterprises transform and accelerate IBM Cloud adoption.
Continuing its longstanding work with IBM to help organizations
modernize applications and adopt a hybrid cloud approach, the new
CAST Highlight capabilities include automated recommendations for
IBM Cloud offerings.
Application modernization is one of the biggest challenges faced
by enterprise IT departments, especially as organizations turn to
hybrid cloud strategies and need to seamlessly run applications
across several different platforms. When migrating critical
workloads to the cloud, it becomes essential to rapidly pinpoint
areas where application code needs to be changed, estimate
precisely the effort required and identify services that are best
suited for the applications to leverage. CAST Highlight now
automatically recommends the IBM Cloud native services best suited
for each application, based on its technical characteristics. For
example, when CAST Highlight detects that an application is
performing manipulation of persistent files, the IBM Cloud Object
Storage service is recommended, along with the relevant
documentation for deploying the service.
“CAST Highlight can analyze the source code of hundreds of
applications in a week and automatically detect patterns that may
impact the migration, whether one intends to use containers or
embark on refactoring. It also specifies exactly where and how
delays can be addressed,” said Marc Zablit, EVP CAST Business
Development. “By optimizing the migration process, organizations
can more quickly experience the unique benefits of IBM Cloud,
including its leading security capabilities.”
IBM Cloud is designed with features to address security,
compliance and resiliency demands of today’s enterprises. By
hosting workloads on IBM Cloud, enterprises can use IBM Cloud’s
confidential computing capabilities delivered with IBM Hyper
Protect Crypto Services and backed by the highest level of security
certification commercially available1 to protect mission-critical
workloads. This can allow businesses to retain control of their own
encryption keys, meaning clients are the only ones who can control
access to their data, not even IBM can access.
IBM Global Business Services multi-disciplinary experts use CAST
Highlight as part of the IBM Garage Methodology designed to help
clients fast track and derisk the modernization of applications and
co-create solutions.
“CAST technology has been an integral part of the IBM Garage for
over a year, helping enterprises on their hybrid cloud journeys,”
said Hillery Hunter, VP and CTO, IBM Cloud. “With the new CAST
Highlight capabilities, organizations can accelerate their
migrations to cloud and experience the benefits of IBM Cloud
earlier, including its industry-leading confidential computing
capabilities.”
CAST is part of IBM’s partner ecosystem, an initiative to
support partners of all types -- whether they build on, service or
resell IBM technologies and platforms -- to help clients manage and
modernize workloads with Red Hat OpenShift for cloud environments,
including IBM Cloud. Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s
leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. IBM Cloud is the industry’s
most secure and open public cloud for business. With its security
leadership, enterprise-grade capabilities and support for open
source technologies, IBM Cloud is designed to differentiate and
extend on hybrid cloud capabilities for enterprise workloads.
The new capabilities to help organizations migrate
mission-critical applications to IBM Cloud faster are now generally
available at castsoftware.com/highlight.
About IBM Cloud
https://www.ibm.com/cloud
About CAST
CAST is the pioneer and category leader in Software
Intelligence, providing insight into the structural condition of
software assets. CAST technology is renowned as the most accurate
“MRI for Software”, which delivers actionable insights into
software composition, architectures, database structures, critical
flaws, quality grades, cloud readiness levels and work effort
metrics. It is used globally by thousands of forward-looking
digital leaders to make objective decisions, accelerate
modernization, and raise the security and resiliency of mission
critical software. Visit castsoftware.com. Contact Stephanie
Watkins at s.watkins@castsoftware.com.
_____________________________1 Based on IBM Hyper Protect Crypto
Service, the only service in the industry built on FIPS 140-2 Level
4-certified hardware. FIPS 140-2 Security Level 4 provides the
highest level of security defined in this standard. At this
security level, the physical security mechanisms provide a
comprehensive envelope of protection around the cryptographic
module with the intent of detecting and responding to all
unauthorized attempts at physical access.
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