Verizon Offers Private Connection To IBM Cloud

Verizon added IBM's cloud services to its growing list of cloud provider environments that customers can securely and directly connect into via Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect offering.

The flexible, private IP network that Secure Cloud Interconnect uses now lets customers connect to IBM Cloud Services using Secure Cloud Interconnect's SDN capabilities to move workloads between multiple clouds, or even from an on-premise IT environment, Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Verizon said.

Today, Secure Cloud Interconnect customers can directly connect to IBM's Cloud data center sites in Dallas and San Jose, Calif., in the U.S. and in Tokyo and Sydney. According to Verizon, two additional sites in Europe are planned for the beginning of 2016.