IBM Technology Expert Labs ADVISE Security Guardium Offerings

IBM Technology Expert Labs consulting services "Advise" Guardium offerings help businesses get the most out of your Guardium investment on Azure or hybrid cloud environments by helping you define an 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 your Guardium 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 or hybrid cloud, our consultant team can provide tried-and-tested solution templates, as well as custom design assistance, and can augment your team to ensure your success with IBM Security Guardium. Our experts can also help with possible integration with other Azure platform services.

Business Challenges may include:

• Difficulty in finding a technology provider who will be a trusted partner throughout your journey • 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 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 models.

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 or hybrid cloud.

"Advise" category of offerings are recommended based on the weekly scope of activities defined in the Service Description. Pricing is based on a week’s fixed scope of activities and estimated conversion from USD. Quantities of the part number offering required may vary depending on requirements.