Cloud Pak for Data as a Service
Most of IBM's data and AI products are currently available as a service and packaged under a single Cloud Pak for Data subscription that is consumption-based, allowing customers to only pay for what they use. Furthermore, to accelerate the modernization of existing workloads and help customers with moving to the cloud/managed services, IBM has launched an initiative called Hybrid Subscription Advantage (HSA) that offers existing software customers discounts to use SaaS instead of software. In this section, we will cover a detailed overview of Cloud Pak for Data as a Service, including the capabilities available, how it's priced and packaged, and how IBM is enabling its customers to modernize through HSA.
As mentioned before, Cloud Pak for Data as a Service allows customers to modernize how they collect, organize, analyze, and infuse AI with no installation, management, or updating required. In other words, it helps deliver all the benefits...