Security News > 2020 > August > Bank of America, Daimler, and Apple partnering with IBM for confidential computing services
For two years, IBM has been deploying confidential computing capabilities in the IBM Cloud and Rohit Badlaney, vice president of IBM Z Hybrid Cloud, said it is the only public cloud with "Production-ready confidential computing capabilities able to protect data, applications and processes."
IBM's platform is now used in heavily regulated industries like healthcare and banking, with high profile customers like Bank of America and Daimler taking advantage of confidential cloud computing capabilities.
IBM has not expanded confidential computing into the entire IBM Cloud but plans to by the middle of next year.
Last month Google Cloud announced that it was kickstarting a beta version of confidential virtual machines as the initial product in Google Cloud's confidential computing portfolio.
Last year, industry leaders Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom, and Tencent came together to found the Confidential Computing Consortium, a new industry group dedicated to accelerating the adoption of confidential computing.