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Unlock the true potential of every workload with hybrid cloud.

Today’s IT landscape demands a hybrid approach that combines the best of on-prem, public cloud, and private cloud. But managing these environments can introduce operational complexity. With Lightedge, we simplify the complexity and ensure your workloads run optimally, regardless of location.

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Lightedge Hybrid Cloud Benefits

Hybrid environments should work for you—not against you. We’ll work with you to design, integrate, and manage a unified cloud ecosystem, ensuring your workloads run seamlessly across on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud platforms, with less complexity and better performance.

Seamless Workload Flexibility

Place every workload where it performs best—on-prem, private cloud, or public cloud—with direct, low-latency connectivity to AWS, Azure, and other hyperscale cloud providers.

End-to-End Management

From migration to ongoing optimization, we handle your hybrid environment so your team can focus on driving business outcomes.

Cost Efficiency Scalability

Control costs with ongoing resource optimization and eliminate overspending with transparent pricing across all platforms.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance

Built-in security and continuous compliance support ensure your workloads meet the strictest standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI-DSS, and more.

Empower your hybrid cloud success with fully managed infrastructure solutions.

We don’t just provide infrastructure—we bring a fully managed hybrid cloud ecosystem designed to help you run workloads efficiently across on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

Seamless integration with hyperscale clouds

Our hybrid cloud data centers provide direct, low-latency connections to AWS, Azure, GCP, and other hyperscale providers. With high-performance networking, you can move workloads seamlessly and ensure optimal performance across any environment.

Best-in-class security and compliance services

We deliver enterprise-grade security with 24/7 SOC monitoring, managed detection and response (MDR), and proactive threat hunting. Our solutions meet the strictest standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS, to keep your workloads protected and compliant.

Innovative solutions for IBM Power (IBM i, AIX)

Extend your IBM i and AIX workloads into hybrid cloud environments with our IBM Power Systems solutions. Integrated with hyperscale providers, we deliver the flexibility, performance, and resilience your mission-critical workloads demand.

Commitment to cost optimization and efficiency

We help you control costs with automated resource optimization and usage monitoring. By right-sizing your infrastructure and eliminating waste, we keep your hybrid cloud cost-efficient and scalable.

Unified hybrid cloud management

Simplify operations with centralized management, real-time performance monitoring, and automated scaling. Our platform keeps your hybrid environment optimized, secure, and aligned with your business goals.

Our multi-platform expertise

We leverage deep expertise across a variety of infrastructure technologies to deliver seamless integration, optimized performance, and a consistent experience across all your environments.

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CUSTOMER STORY / IBM POWER HYBRID CLOUD / LOGISTICS

98%

Mean Downtime (MDT) Improvement

“Lightedge’s IBM hybrid cloud provided us the stability, high availability, and resiliency we needed, immediately.“

Salem Elnahwy

Chief Technology Officer, Transflo

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How Lightedge Hybrid Cloud fits your business and applications.

From modernizing IBM Power Systems to enhancing business continuity and deploying AI-ready workloads across hybrid environments, we help you build a hybrid cloud strategy perfectly aligned with your business goals.

For IBM Power Systems

Extend and optimize your IBM i and AIX workloads with on-net IBM Power Systems integrated into our hybrid cloud environment. Achieve unmatched performance, scalability, and disaster recovery while connecting seamlessly to hyperscale providers like AWS and Azure.

For regulated industries

Simplify compliance with advanced security services and audit-ready infrastructure. Whether you need to meet HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, or other regulatory standards, we provide the visibility and support to maintain continuous compliance.

For disaster recovery and business continuity

Ensure business continuity with integrated DR across on-prem and cloud, enabling cross-site replication, rapid failover, and high availability in hybrid environments.

For AI workloads

Power your AI applications with high-performance, AI-ready infrastructure designed for scalability and seamless connectivity to hyperscale providers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Hybrid cloud is an IT model that runs a single set of workloads across two or more environments, typically on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud connected so that data and applications can move between them. The goal is placement: running each workload in the environment that best fits its performance, cost, latency, and regulatory requirements, rather than forcing every workload into one location. Most enterprises arrive at hybrid cloud gradually, through acquisition, modernization, or regulatory constraint, rather than choosing it deliberately at the outset.

Lightedge Hybrid Cloud is a fully managed service that designs, integrates, and operates a connected environment spanning your on-premises infrastructure, Lightedge private cloud, and public cloud platforms including AWS and Azure. Lightedge provides the underlying data center capacity, the network connectivity between environments, the management layer, and the engineering team that runs it. This includes migration, ongoing operations, security monitoring, and cost optimization rather than infrastructure alone.

It is built for mid-market and enterprise organizations that operate in regulated industries, run workloads that cannot move entirely to public cloud, or lack the internal headcount to manage multiple environments. Lightedge works most often with financial services, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, manufacturing, logistics, energy, consumer goods, SaaS companies and much more. The common thread is a mixed estate, often including IBM Power, VMware, or Nutanix workloads alongside AWS or Azure, combined with a compliance obligation that makes environment choice a governance decision, not just a technical one.

Engagements begin with a cloud readiness assessment that inventories your current workloads and identifies where each one should run based on performance, cost, dependency, and compliance requirements. Lightedge then designs the target architecture, establishes direct network connectivity between your environments and the relevant public cloud providers, and executes the migration in phases. Once live, Lightedge operates the environment day to day, monitoring performance, managing patching and capacity, running security operations, and reviewing cost and placement decisions on an ongoing basis as workloads and requirements change.

Hybrid cloud addresses four recurring problems. First, workload fit: some applications like legacy ERP, IBM i and AIX environments, latency-sensitive systems run poorly or expensively in public cloud. Second, regulatory constraint: some data must stay in a known physical location with auditable controls. Third, cost predictability: public cloud egress and always-on compute can be significantly more expensive than dedicated infrastructure for steady-state workloads. Fourth, resilience: distributing workloads across environments provides recovery options that a single environment cannot. The trade-off is operational complexity, which is the specific problem a managed hybrid cloud service is meant to absorb.

Public cloud only is simpler to operate and better suited to elastic, variable, and greenfield workloads. Hybrid is better suited to estates with steady-state compute, legacy platform dependencies, data residency requirements, or applications that would need expensive re-architecture to run natively in public cloud. In practice the decision is rarely all-or-nothing and is usually made per workload: many organizations move customer-facing and analytics workloads to public cloud while keeping core transactional systems on dedicated infrastructure. A readiness assessment that models actual cost and dependency per workload is more useful here than a general preference for one model.

Yes. Lightedge runs IBM Power Systems workloads, including IBM i and AIX, on dedicated infrastructure within its data centers, connected directly to public cloud environments such as AWS and Azure. This lets organizations keep core IBM Power applications on the platform they require while extending adjacent workloads, analytics, and disaster recovery into public cloud. It is a common path for organizations that want to modernize around their IBM Power estate without a full application rewrite. Transflo, a logistics technology company, worked with Lightedge on an IBM Power hybrid cloud environment and reported a 98% improvement in mean downtime.

Lightedge provides security operations center monitoring, managed detection and response, and threat hunting across hybrid environments. Lightedge maintains compliance attestations for its own infrastructure and supports customers subject to HIPAA, PCI DSS, HITRUST, and NIST-aligned frameworks by providing audit-ready documentation, controls evidence, and for covered entities. Compliance is a shared responsibility: Lightedge attests to the infrastructure and services it operates, and works with your team on the application and data controls that sit above it.

Timelines depend on estate size, application complexity, and how much dependency mapping is required. A single-workload migration is materially faster than a full data center exit. Lightedge phases migrations so that lower-risk workloads move first, establishing the connectivity and operational pattern before mission-critical systems are touched.

Hybrid cloud is worth evaluating when any of the following is true: you have a data center lease or hardware refresh decision approaching; you run IBM Power, VMware, or other workloads whose licensing or architecture makes public cloud expensive; you operate under a compliance regime that constrains where data can reside; your public cloud spend has grown faster than the workloads it supports; or you have concluded that a full public cloud migration is not feasible within your timeline or budget.

Lightedge operates the environment as a managed service rather than handing back keys at go-live. That includes 24/7 monitoring and support, patching and capacity management, security operations, disaster recovery testing, and periodic reviews of workload placement and cost. Customers have access to the MyLightedge portal for visibility into their environment. The intent is that your team stops operating infrastructure and starts operating applications.

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