IBM Technology Expert Labs PLAN Security Guardium Offering on Azure

IBM Technology Expert Labs consulting services "Plan Guardium" Offering helps businesses get the most out of your Guardium investment on Azure by helping you develop a design and architecture based on your own custom use cases and industry best practices. Providing the right expertise and experience, our deep, product oriented subject matter experts can work alongside both your business and technical stakeholders to provide end-to-end planning support for a solution that can be deployed rapidly, with minimal risk and with all the desired functionality.

Whether it is your first installation or you need to mature and optimize an existing Guardium solution on Azure, our consultant team can provide tried-and-tested solution templates, as well as custom design assistance, and can augment your team to ensure their success with IBM Security Guardium and integration with other Azure platform services.

Business Challenges (that are addressed and discussed at the briefing may include):

• Finding a technology provider who will be a trusted partner • Understanding the full potential of IBM Security Guardium on Azure or hybrid cloud • Following a proven implementation methodology • Deploying on-time and within budget • Accessing deployment experts to maximize your staff’s productivity • Becoming self-sufficient • Shielding the business from risk

Outcomes Desired (based on purchased quantities of days) may include:

• Identification of existing and/or new opportunity project focused on use case deployments utilizing existing Guardium software • Recommendations for highest priority scenarios and discovery of the most impact to business and security objectives

Key Activities (based on purchased quantities of days may include):

• A detailed plan for your deployment or expansion
• Architecture for the solution with automations and integrations on Azure or hybrid cloud deployment model
• Defined data protection use cases

Deliverables may include:

• A series of workshops to document high level requirements and create a solution design overview for Guardium on Azure or hybrid cloud deployment model

Pre-requisites:

• Purchase of Guardium software on Azure platform here:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/ibm-usa-ny-armonk-hq-6275750-ibmcloud-asperia.ibm_security_guardium_data_protection?tab=Overview

Value Proposition:

With IBM's deep, product related skills and multitudes of customer engagements around the globe we can ensure that customers will benefit from learning from our best practices for deployment on Azure or hybrid cloud models and leverage this on-going for self sufficiency over time.

Your organization will benefit from any pre-built methodologies and architecture blueprint asset(s) during this planning service offering to help accelerate your adoption of IBM Security® Guardium on Azure.