Cloud Private, IBM's new hybrid cloud service

Built on the open source Kubernetes container architecture with support for Docker and Cloud Foundry, Cloud Private essentially allows legacy applications to be containerized and moved to a private cloud environment.

IBM has unveiled the Cloud Private software tool, designed to enable legacy applications to run in on-premises data centers and in the private cloud, effectively expanding the reach of your hybrid cloud efforts.

Built on the open source Kubernetes container architecture with support for Docker and Cloud Foundry, Cloud Private essentially allows legacy applications to be containerized and moved to a private cloud environment.

The idea is to allow companies to configure more cloud-native applications and systems on their existing infrastructure. Within application development it also provides integrated data monitoring, logging and scalability functions.

Furthermore, it helps streamline development with microservices, runtimes, containers, and Kubernetes orchestration included. Additionally, you can modernize legacy applications in the cloud, move applications to the cloud as-is, or refactor an application and use it in new application and development workload models.

Additionally, with IBM Cloud private, developers can leverage internal data and introduce external sources to power their applications.

Basically, IBM wants to provide the best of both worlds by providing a way to create APIs to connect cloud services like Salesforce to the internal data center and share data with those legacy applications. It will also allow legacy applications to be managed in a modern way by moving them to containers, while using Kubernetes as the management layer.

Kubernetes is the open source container orchestration tool originally developed by Google. It is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has been adopted by almost every major technology company, from AWS to Oracle and Microsoft, to VMware and Pivotal (both now part of Dell-EMC).