“At IBM, we are very “private cloud” and “hybrid cloud” oriented with a very vertical approach. Many of our customers have set up private clouds. Agyla reinforces our portfolio of “public cloud” services, explained this morning Marc Bousquet, head of the HCS activity of IBM Consulting France, in the spans of Vivatech.
Because IBM France has just announced the acquisition of the French company Agyla, for an undisclosed amount. This IT consulting company, with multi-million turnover and reputed to be profitable, specializes in the implementation of Cloud solutions, DevOps (IT development & operations) and information system security services.
“We support CIOs in developing and maintaining the performance of their operations on these technologies”, explains Raphaël Haïk, president of the company.
Agyla already uses IBM technologies
Agyla’s clients are mainly large accounts, including Veolia, the PMU, but also medium-sized companies and administrations. She works with organizations for the deployment of IT solutions based on Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure) cloud platforms.
IBM plans to integrate Agyla into its PES (Platform engineering services) entity within the Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) activity of IBM Consulting, led by Jean-Etienne Martin.
“One of the current challenges for many information systems is to assemble various cloud components – wherever they come from – in order to deploy ‘hybrid clouds’ and ‘multicloud’ environments around ‘backbone’ infrastructures. ‘ (backbones) with use of container orchestrators like Kubernetes. It also notably involves orchestrating several public clouds, as is the case with certain customers, with the flexibility of being able to migrate all or part of the applications from one cloud to another – private or public,” explains Marc Bousquet.
“Agyla provides developers with the latest generation “frameworks” in ‘lowcode’ (minimum coding) or ‘serverless’ (virtual machine servers are provided online) – which makes it possible to bring innovations to the business with solutions “scalable” (extensible to scale)”, mentions Raphaël Haïk.
Since its creation, Agyla has used, among other things, Red Hat technology, owned by IBM, in particular Ansible integration and automation modules, as well as the OpenShift platform.