IBM's HashiCorp Debuts Real-Time Infrastructure Graph and Lifecycle Enhancements for Hybrid Cloud Automation

At HashiConf 2025, HashiCorp marked its 10th global conference—and its first as an IBM company—with a bold vision for the future of infrastructure automation. The company introduced a suite of Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management (ILM and SLM) capabilities and previewed Project infragraph, a strategic investment designed to enable agentic infrastructure across hybrid environments.

Project infragraph: A Real-Time Infrastructure Graph for AI-Ready Operations

• Relational visibility across provisioning workflows and production environments
• Tailored insights for platform and infrastructure teams to accelerate decision-making
• Unified context for automation and policy enforcement
• Agentic workflow readiness, enabling AI to reason about infrastructure state and propose remediation or optimization actions

Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Enhancements

Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM)

• HCP Terraform Stacks (GA): Simplifies multi-component deployments
• Terraform Search & Actions (Beta): Accelerates onboarding and automates Day 2 operations
• MCP Server (Beta): Enables natural language interaction with Terraform registries
• SBOM Storage & Image Provenance: Enhances supply chain security

Security Lifecycle Management (SLM)

• HCP Boundary RDP Credential Injection (Beta): Secures remote access without exposing secrets
• Vault Radar Jira Scanning & IDE Plugin (GA/Beta): Detects secrets earlier in the development cycle
• Vault Dedicated Enhancements: Includes AWS PrivateLink, Azure DNS, and secrets inventory reporting
• Vault MCP Server (Beta): Natural language interface for managing secrets

A Platform for Intelligent Infrastructure

“HashiCorp’s latest product updates and the introduction of Project infragraph signal more than product momentum—they represent the evolution of a platform that can unify infrastructure and security data, and accelerate intelligent decision-making,” said Armon Dadgar, CTO and co-founder of HashiCorp.

IBM’s Dinesh Nirmal added, “Project infragraph is a major step toward infrastructure that can observe, reason, and act. By combining automation with real-time infrastructure intelligence, we are creating the control layer that unlocks the next era of AI-powered operations.”

IBM Unveils Power11 in India: AI-Optimized Server Built for Mission-Critical Workloads and Hybrid Cloud

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has officially launched its most advanced Power server to date, IBM Power11, in India, marking a significant milestone in enterprise AI infrastructure. Purpose-built for the AI-first era. Power11 is engineered to deliver real-time inferencing, seamless hybrid cloud deployment, and unmatched reliability—all while reducing energy consumption and IT costs.

Designed for Mission-Critical Workloads

Developed with major contributions from the IBM India Systems Development Lab (ISDL), Power11 is tailored for enterprises operating complex, data-intensive workloads across sectors like banking, telecom, healthcare, retail, and public services. According to IDC, over one billion new logical applications are expected by 2028, and Power11 is positioned to manage this scale with AI-driven performance, security, and control.

Power11 is built for enterprises that demand high performance, security, and always-on operations while preparing for an AI-first future,” said Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan, Vice President, ISDL, IBM.

Key Features and Innovations

AI Where Data Lives

• On-chip inferencing enables AI models to run directly where data resides—whether in private data centers or hybrid cloud environments.
• Supports data sovereignty and compliance mandates critical to India’s evolving digital landscape.

Security and Resilience

• Offers 99.9999% uptime, the highest in IBM Power history.
• Features <1-minute ransomware threat detection via IBM Power Cyber Vault.
• Built-in quantum-safe cryptography protects against future threats like harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks.

Energy Efficiency

• Delivers 2x performance per watt compared to x86 servers.
• Introduces an Energy Efficient Mode with up to 28% better server efficiency than Maximum Performance Mode.

Future-Ready Architecture

• First IBM Power server to support the upcoming IBM Spyre™ Accelerator, arriving in Q4 2025, designed for AI-intensive inference workloads.
• Fully compatible with IBM’s AI stack including watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift AI.

Availability and Strategic Impact

IBM Power11 will be generally available from July 25, 2025, with the Spyre Accelerator expected later this year. The launch underscores India’s growing role not just as a consumer of cutting-edge infrastructure, but as a co-developer of global enterprise technology.

With Power11, IBM is not just delivering a server—it’s offering a platform for transformation. From UPI and 5G to smart manufacturing and e-governance, Indian enterprises now have a resilient, AI-optimized infrastructure to scale innovation responsibly and securely.

IBM Power11 will be generally available July 25, 2025. The IBM Spyre™ Accelerator is expected to be available in Q4 2025. To learn more about Power11, visit here.

IBM Power11 Debuts as the Most Resilient Server in IBM History, Targeting AI-Era Demands

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has officially launched IBM Power11, the latest generation of its enterprise-grade server platform.

Power11 is purpose-built to meet the demands of AI-driven workloads and hybrid cloud environments. It features a complete redesign across processor, hardware architecture, and virtualization software stack.

The new server is engineered to deliver resiliency, scalability, and performance for mission-critical operations.

• Built for the AI Era:
• Next-gen processor with up to 55% performance gains over Power9
• Zero planned downtime with 99.9999% uptime
• Quantum-safe cryptography and ransomware detection under 1 minute
• Support for IBM Spyre AI Accelerator, optimized for inferencing and LLMs
• Hybrid Cloud Flexibility:
• Available on-premises and on IBM Cloud via IBM Power Virtual Server
• Certified for RISE with SAP
• Integrates with watsonx.data and watsonx Code Assistant for i
• Trusted Across Industries:
• Ideal for banking, healthcare, retail, and government workloads
• Continues IBM Power’s legacy of supporting mission-critical, data-intensive operations

Tom McPherson, GM of IBM Power Systems, said, —

Power11 is the most resilient server in IBM Power platform history. It’s built to simplify operations, accelerate AI adoption, and ensure business continuity in a hybrid cloud world.

NTT Data and IBM Launch SimpliZcloud for India's Financial Services Sector

NTT DATA and IBM have recently expanded their partnership in India to launch SimpliZCloud, a fully managed cloud service built on IBM LinuxONE. This service is designed to support critical workloads in financial services, including core banking applications, lending, and risk management.

SimpliZCloud is a fully managed cloud service specifically designed to support critical workloads in the financial services sector. It offers a secure, scalable, and integrated architecture that delivers dedicated compute and storage resources, powered by Software Defined Networking (SDN).

It aims to optimize infrastructure investments and ongoing costs by consolidating resources and reducing enterprise software license costs. This service is particularly beneficial for financial institutions looking to leverage AI and hybrid cloud technologies to manage their evolving applications and workloads.

SimpliZCloud is designed to scale according to the needs of financial institutions, allowing them to handle increasing workloads without compromising performance.

By consolidating resources and reducing enterprise software license costs, SimpliZCloud helps financial institutions optimize their infrastructure investments and ongoing costs.

The service leverages AI and hybrid cloud technologies to manage evolving applications and workloads, enhancing the digital transformation journey of financial institutions.

This partnership represents a significant step towards enhancing the digital transformation journey of financial institutions in India.

“With SimpliZCloud, enterprises, especially financial institutions now have the power to make a generational shift in their cloud transformation journey. Critical business applications, especially those infused with AI and ML will now have the infrastructure to support performance far ahead of the traditional x86 architectures all in a fully managed, as-a-service model. This launch represents our continued commitment to supporting our clients’ ambitions for innovation and digital transformation,” said Avinash Joshi, Chief Executive Officer, India, NTT DATA, Inc. “I’m proud of the work our teams at NTT DATA and IBM have done in bringing this service to our clients and look forward to the transformative outcomes of this collaboration.”

“Over the years, with the IBM LinuxONE platform, IBM has delivered much-needed security, scalability, reliability and performance to help India’s leading financial institutions manage their mission-critical workloads safely and sustainably. By bringing SimpliZCloud to modern enterprises, we are continuing our commitment to help them adopt a hybrid-by-design approach. With SimpliZCloud, financial institutions can leverage a highly secure, high-performance platform and robust infrastructure to harness the benefits of AI and hybrid cloud to manage their evolving applications and workloads,” said Viswanath Ramaswamy, Vice President, Technology, IBM India & South Asia.

NTT DATA and IBM have a history of collaborating on various innovative projects. In January 2024, NTT DATA Business Solutions and IBM established a Center of Excellence (CoE) for the IBM watsonx generative AI platform. This CoE focuses on developing embedded generative AI solutions using IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform.

Wipro Secures Contract from German Auto Supplier MAHLE to Transform Its IT Infra with Hybrid Cloud

Wipro has secured a multi-year contract with MAHLE, a global automotive supplier, to enhance its IT infrastructure using hybrid cloud solutions.

As part of the project, Wipro will migrate MAHLE's core data centers into their FullStride Cloud platform, aiming to improve business agility, digitization, and regulatory compliance while reducing IT costs. This integration will allow MAHLE to standardize and digitize its IT ecosystem, adapt swiftly to market changes, and better support its customers.

This enhanced business flexibility will allow MAHLE to adjust their data and computing capacity consumption based on market conditions, significantly reducing their IT costs.

Founded in 1920, MAHLE is a German automotive parts manufacturer headquartered in Stuttgart. It's one of the largest automotive suppliers globally, specializing in components and systems for combustion engines and their peripherals. As a pioneer in sustainable mobility, MAHLE develops innovative solutions for electric powertrains and environmentally friendly transportation.

MAHLE provides products, services and systems for both passenger car and commercial vehicle sectors. Founded in 1920, the technology group is working on the climate-neutral mobility of tomorrow, with a focus on the strategic areas of electrification and thermal management as well as further technologies to reduce CO2 emissions, such as fuel cells or highly efficient, clean combustion engines that also run on renewable fuels, such as hydrogen.

Wipro's FullStride Cloud platform is a comprehensive hybrid cloud solution offered by the Indian multinational corporation. It enables organizations to seamlessly integrate public and private cloud environments, optimizing performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. With FullStride, businesses can accelerate their digital transformation, enhance agility, and improve IT operations.

Why Businesses are Preferring 'Hybrid Cloud' ?

Businesses are rapidly embracing the cloud, driven by benefits such as improved agility and efficiency. Public and private clouds are the future, and combining the two gives your business an edge over competitors.

Hybrid cloud allows you to maintain your data in private cloud, the biggest issue of large enterprises and mid-sized businesses being the security of data. They don’t want certain workloads and data to go out of their internal private data centers.

It allows businesses to store data in both public and private cloud environments, with both communicating over encrypted connections independently of each other. This is crucial, as businesses can now store their critical or sensitive data on the private cloud while storing other resources on public networks.

Hybrid cloud provides flexible and powerful computing and storage on demand along with security and reliability. Hybrid cloud allows you to run two interconnected clouds, each storing and processing different data sets. Public clouds let you to scale and enhance efficiency and private cloud provides security, speed and customization.

The agility provided by hybrid cloud speeds up time-to-market for businesses, and improves their abilities to service their employees and customers. A hybrid cloud will support workloads, offering advantage of both the worlds, private clouds being better for steady workloads, and public clouds supporting ad-hoc workloads.

A hybrid cloud approach offers greater consistency, with private cloud ensuring that you have fast access to your critical data, whereas public cloud’s speed dependent on the internet connection.

A hybrid cloud will allow you to move some existing applications to the public cloud, meaning that you don't have to move everything that you've already invested in. Nor will your staff require learning new ways of working, as they can continue with existing applications.

By leveraging the benefits of hybrid cloud, businesses can reduce overall total cost of ownership and improve cost efficiency. Hybrid cloud will let you to more closely match your cost pattern to your revenue/demand pattern.

A hybrid cloud thus has the capability to reflect an architectural framework that is used for a dynamic IT setting. This model can deal with all sorts of unpredictable fluctuations that can arise in the supply and utilization of new prospects. Hybrid cloud also provides enhanced flexibility to adjust according to growth fashions in different enterprise changes. A unified setting would be presented throughout a combination of deployment fashions. This helps in enhancing responsiveness and operational agility!

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IBM Redefines Security, Availability and Economics of Storing Data in the Hybrid Cloud

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is introducing a new cloud object storage service that redefines the security, availability and economics of storing, managing and accessing massive amounts of digital information across hybrid clouds. The company’s breakthrough new IBM Cloud Object Storage offering derives from IBM's acquisition of Cleversafe and its significant portfolio of patents which are designed to deliver clients better value with industry-leading security.

Though organizations are flocking to the cloud for improved efficiencies and IT agility, clients see a gap in their ability to store increasingly larger volumes of data – on premises and off premises. Presently companies have to choose between storing data on internal servers and storage systems, or in the cloud. It’s a dilemma that has hindered business flexibility and raised infrastructure costs. As data volumes continue to grow across industries, the need to create flexible hybrid cloud storage solutions has intensified.

The new IBM Cloud Object Storage storage-as-a-service offerings will enable clients for the first time to scale large unstructured data volumes across on-premises systems as well as public and private clouds quickly and easily. This will dramatically increase IT system flexibility and security. In a price comparison of identical object storage capacity running on a competitive cloud, the new IBM Cloud Object Storage demonstrated more than 25% lower costs for the capacity, environment and locations compared. Built on an innovation called SecureSlice from industry leader, Cleversafe, (acquired by IBM in 2015), IBM Cloud Object Storage is designed to make storing and managing that data on the IBM Cloud reliable and available across regions and around the clock.

“As clients continue to move massive workloads to hybrid clouds there is a need for an easier, more secure and economical way to store and manage mounting volumes of digital information,” said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud. “With today’s announcement, IBM becomes the leading cloud vendor to provide clients the flexibility and availability of object data storage across on-premises and public clouds.”

Bitly Migrates 1 Billion Datasets to IBM Cloud Object Storage; Adopts IBM as its Exclusive Cloud Platform

Bitly, the world’s leading customer experience platform, is continually looking for new ways to help organizations use its software platform to gain actionable insights about their customers. The company has adopted the new IBM Cloud Object Storage service to more quickly and easily analyze historical data that is being produced by the more than 10 billion clicks it processes each month across the world. This historical data, up to 500TB, includes user interactions across online channels – useful information for marketers that are using Bitly to deliver and measure their efforts across all marketing channels.

“With more than 400 million new links created every month, the Bitly platform is growing at an explosive rate,” said Robert Platzer, CTO, Bitly. “We turned exclusively to IBM Cloud because of its leadership in data services. Through this partnership IBM will help us transform our business and build a variety of new cloud services – from advanced analytics and data mining to data research – into our software platform. The new IBM Cloud Object Storage service will enable us to manage all the data from our on-premises and cloud infrastructure with ease and flexibility.”

Bitly’s adoption of IBM Cloud Object Storage is part of a deep multi-year partnership with IBM. With today’s announcement, IBM Cloud has become the exclusive cloud platform for Bitly. Earlier this year, the company moved 25 billion data-infused links to IBM Cloud to take advantage of the high performance and global scale of IBM’s nearly 50 global Cloud Data Centers. With that migration complete, the company has turned its attention to managing all 1 billion datasets of the historical interactions behind those links with IBM Cloud Object Storage.

IBM Breaks the Constraints of Today’s Storage Architecture

At the heart of the new IBM Cloud Object Storage service is IBM’s innovative SecureSlice, which combines encryption and erasure coding for greater security and information dispersal which enhances data availability. These fundamental technologies can help clients satisfy their data compliance security requirements and maintain access to critical data even in the face of a regional outage. These capabilities are also delivered without having to make expensive copies of data, resulting in improved economics to clients. Specifically:

Security

IBM is the only company to have combined erasure coding with encryption and decryption. When data comes into the IBM Cloud Object Storage system, SecureSlice automatically encrypts each segment of data before it is erasure coded and dispersed. The content can only be re-assembled through IBM Cloud’s “Accesser” technology at the client’s primary data center, where the data was originally received, and decrypted by SecureSlice.

Availability

Because of these innovations, IBM Cloud Object Storage can tolerate even catastrophic regional outages without interruption of access to data or the need for customer intervention. Continuous availability is inherent in the architecture. Some traditional cloud storage providers, place the burden of data management and the cost for creating and maintaining a second copy for regional fault tolerance on the client.

Economics

As a result of the technology’s robust hybrid capabilities, IBM Cloud Object Storage has demonstrated it can, for the compared capacity, environment and locations, reduce certain overall costs of cloud storage. For example, based on internal IBM testing comparing IBM Cloud Object Storage Vault Cross-Region Services to a leading vendor in head-to-head Cross Region service managing ½ petabyte (PB) of data, the IBM solution was close to 24% less expensive for the location and workload compared, and at 5PB the service was more than 25% less expensive.[1]

Delivering the Flexibility Clients Need to Meet Business Requirements

IBM Cloud Object Storage is offered in two public, multi-tenant services: Cross Region Service, which sends the sliced data to at least three geographically dispersed regions across IBM Cloud data centers; and Regional Service, which holds the data in multiple data centers in a given region. Both the Regional and Cross Region services provide SecureSlice, encrypted erasure coding to protect the data. The new services complement the company’s existing IBM Cloud Object Storage System for on premises object storage, and the IBM Cloud Object Storage Dedicated Service, a private cloud offering that runs on bare-metal servers. All of the IBM Cloud Object Storage services on or off-premises support Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift interfaces for greater programming flexibility.

IBM Brings Cloud Object Storage to hundreds of Storage Platforms with Transparent Cloud Tiering

Finally, for the first time, IT organizations with on-premises storage will be able to move data seamlessly to and from the cloud. IBM Spectrum Virtualize will add hybrid cloud capabilities to nearly 400 platforms, both IBM and non-IBM. IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Spectrum Scale, use Transparent Cloud Tiering to extend traditional storage to the cloud with policy driven, automated simplicity, security and control.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is available now for enterprise clients across IBM Cloud data centers in the US and Europe and will be available in the Asia Pacific region in December. Availability via digital channels, with swipe-and-go credit card support, will begin in the US starting in December and Europe soon thereafter.

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