Security News > 2020 > March > IBM providing 9 free public cloud business services to customers during coronavirus pandemic
With more and more companies seeking ways to get their essential work done with a workforce that is now primarily home-based during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, IBM has joined a legion of IT vendors that have been offering some of their critical IT applications and services for free to existing customers to help in this time of crisis.
Under the new offer, nine IBM cloud products and services are now available for use by IBM customers that need them at no charge for 90 days, including IBM Cloud, Aspera file sharing and team collaboration, IBM Security, IBM Video Streaming and IBM Enterprise Video Streaming, IBM Sterling supply chain tools, IBM Blueworks Live remote collaboration tools, IBM Cloud Event Management, remote learning resources, and IBM Garage.
"These services-all of which run on the IBM public cloud-were chosen as they enable our customers access to the capacity, security and services they need to keep their operations running while they adjust to the new demands of an almost entirely remote workforce," Jason McGee, the vice president and CTO of the IBM Cloud Platform, said.
"And that's why what IBM is doing in response to this crisis right now is so important. Our focus is on ensuring that companies won't miss a beat and can maintain the same levels of security and reliability as they transition to wide-scale work-from-home through their public, private, and hybrid cloud environments." For now, the free cloud services are being offered for 90 days each, according to the company.
IBM Cloud, which is offering the use of its open and secure hybrid cloud platform with advanced data and artificial intelligence capabilities for helping customers maintain business continuity while migrating to remote work environments, including IBM Cloud Virtual Server configurations.