At last week’s Think 2019 conference, IBM made a splash with its announcement that its Watson AI platform would run on the Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform public clouds as well as on-premises enterprise environments.
This full-throated support of hybrid IT eclipsed a related announcement that IBM is rolling out the new IBM Cloud Integration Platform, thus throwing its hat into the increasingly crowded Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) market.
Given the fact that the word ‘hybrid’ appears twice in the paragraph above, it would be easy to assume that the ‘hybrid’ in ‘hybrid IT’ means the same thing as the word when it appears in ‘Hybrid Integration Platform.’
A closer look at the HIP terminology, however, uncovers a confusing, but important distinction. Hybrid integration isn’t hybrid because it refers to integration for hybrid IT (even though many companies will use it for such).
Instead, ‘hybrid integration’ means ‘a mix of different integration technologies’ – and such a mishmash may very well work at cross purposes to the very hybrid IT strategy that it is meant to support.
Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/02/16/new-ibm-cloud-integration-platform-highlights-confusion-over-hybrid-integration/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, IBM, Microsoft, Software AG, and SnapLogic are former Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Peter Burka.
