24 March 2026

Claranet strengthens partnership with IBM with introduction of IBM Cloud into Managed Public Cloud

Claranet has further deepened its long‑standing relationship with IBM by introducing IBM Cloud as a core component of its Managed Public Cloud offering. The addition of IBM Cloud (backed by years of IBM expertise) is just another string to our bow for customers who want end-to-end support, management and optimisation of their cloud environments.

Claranet already holds IBM Platinum Partner status, built on years of delivering Database as a Service (DBaaS) for Informix users. With our managed database services, we support businesses running mission-critical systems on Informix, helping them get the most out of it. The introduction of IBM Cloud offers our customers even greater flexibility in how they use, manage, and future‑proof their environments.

Expanding choice for customers

This integration empowers customers to run diverse workloads, from traditional databases to cloud‑native applications, in an environment designed for efficiency and high availability.

IBM Cloud’s strengths – including built‑in security, enterprise resilience, and robust workload migration capabilities – complement our existing expertise across public cloud platforms. With IBM Cloud as part of our Managed Public Cloud solution, we now offer a broader set of cloud platform options tailored to industry requirements, application architectures, and regulatory needs. 

A future‑ready cloud foundation

Whether you’re maintaining existing systems or innovating with modern architectures, you can rely on our deep IBM experience to ease the burden of managing your cloud environment.

We can help you migrate your existing workloads and manage the day-to-day running of your cloud infrastructure. We’ll help you rightsize your cloud environment, cutting unnecessary costs while optimising performance, and acting as your trusted cloud advisor every step of the way. 

Our Managed Public Cloud offering includes:

  • Landing Zone: Everything you need for a fully-functional production-ready cloud environment. Reduce set-up time for running secure, scalable workloads wit access management, governance and security.
  • Managed Operating System: Get comprehensive support for your public cloud operating systems. By supervising your servers, storage, and networks proactively, your infrastructure will be continuously optimised, secure, and available.
  • Backup: Make sure nothing is lost when accidental deletion or corruption of your data would otherwise stop your business.
  • Disaster Recovery: Recover your cloud environments following data exfiltration, damage, or disruption. Protect your data and systems with a secure, flexible managed solution.
  • Managed Platform as a Service (PaaS): Build and maintain high performance, cloud native environments needed to develop and run applications efficiently.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI / CD): Keep your infrastructure repeatable, reliable and resilient with programmatic representation of your cloud environment, ensuring that misconfigurations are minimised and deployment is facilitated, keeping your attention on the work that is more of a focus to your business.
  • FinOps: Control your cloud spend, optimise your cloud usage, improve cost reporting and forecasting, and ensure cloud investments align with business goals.

Building on a proven partnership

Claranet’s Platinum Partner accreditation reflects years of close collaboration with IBM on database and infrastructure services. Our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering has become a trusted pathway for organisations maintaining legacy Informix systems or planning structured upgrades to newer versions. Customers benefit from:

  • Fully managed Informix environments
  • Expertise in legacy system stabilisation
  • Support for modernisation and version upgrades
  • Enhanced security and performance optimisation
  • 24/7 monitoring and proactive management

By extending this capability into IBM Cloud, Claranet is creating a smoother route for organisations working with Informix or IBM‑aligned technologies to transition into a hybrid or fully cloud‑based model.

Talk to us: we’ll help take away the time-consuming task of maintaining your databases and your cloud environment. Whatever the challenge, we’ve got the people, the skills, and the technology expertise to sort it.