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Choosing IBM Cloud for Security

Key Points

  • The company selected IBM primarily for its strong security, scalability, availability, agility, and reliability, especially valuing the trusted IBM Z mainframe on the cloud.
  • IBM Hyper Protect was chosen to safeguard intellectual property, user data, and authors’ stories, delivering the promised security guarantees.
  • An app‑ID and token‑based authentication system was implemented to verify users and accurately track paid session counts.
  • IBM’s cloud enabled rapid expansion, provisioning 11 websites, 23 databases, 22 million lines of code, and 15 TB of data in just 27 hours.
  • By moving to IBM Cloud, the organization eliminated the need for its own data center while handling billions of data points reliably.

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# Choosing IBM Cloud for Security **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZs29PT_3yw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZs29PT_3yw) **Duration:** 00:02:05 ## Summary - The company selected IBM primarily for its strong security, scalability, availability, agility, and reliability, especially valuing the trusted IBM Z mainframe on the cloud. - IBM Hyper Protect was chosen to safeguard intellectual property, user data, and authors’ stories, delivering the promised security guarantees. - An app‑ID and token‑based authentication system was implemented to verify users and accurately track paid session counts. - IBM’s cloud enabled rapid expansion, provisioning 11 websites, 23 databases, 22 million lines of code, and 15 TB of data in just 27 hours. - By moving to IBM Cloud, the organization eliminated the need for its own data center while handling billions of data points reliably. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZs29PT_3yw&t=0s) **Choosing IBM Cloud for Security and Speed** - A client outlines how IBM Cloud’s security, hyper‑protect features, scalability, and rapid provisioning enabled them to safeguard intellectual property and swiftly launch massive workloads without a data center. ## Full Transcript
0:00[Music] 0:03we chose IBM because of first and 0:07foremost security and then scalability 0:11availability agility and reliability all 0:15of those are there we were very leery on 0:18a lot of the clouds to which one to use 0:20when IBM decided to put Z on the cloud 0:23it made absolutely perfect sense to us 0:25since we already know how secure it is 0:28we have to protect our own intellectual 0:31property all of our user data and we 0:35have all of our authors intellectual 0:37property with their stories that we need 0:39to protect and the IBM hyper protect 0:42offers us that and succeeds and actually 0:46does what it says it's going to do our 0:48users need to be authenticated and they 0:51need to be validated that the number of 0:54sessions that there have going are the 0:56correct number that they're paying for 0:58and we use an app ID and a token system 1:02in order to give the authentications and 1:05keep everybody's numbers in order we 1:08also need to happen now we can't wait 1:12six months to put in a new machine and 1:14with the IBM cloud we don't have to we 1:18call up IBM and say we need to expand 1:21here and for how much and they are able 1:24to get stuff up and running in less than 1:27a day it was 27 hours from the time we 1:31said go and to the time it was up and 1:34running 11 websites 23 databases 22 1:38million lines of code 15 terabytes of 1:41data one of the biggest benefits is that 1:43we don't have to have a data center we 1:46had billions of data points to tell us 1:48IBM works and the IBM cloud was the 1:52solution for us it does what it's 1:55supposed to do 1:57[Music]