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IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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What is IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?

Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a fully managed confidential compute container runtime that enables the deployment of sensitive containerized workloads in a highly isolated environment with technical assurance.

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IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Is An Excellent Choice For Securely Processing Sensitive Data

Ryan Young, MD, MBAView profile
Founder & Chief Executive Officer in Corporate at Opollo Technologies (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sensitive patient data is defined as protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA which is a United States patient privacy law. Processing PHI within a very secure enclave is incredibly important for us, as a fintech, healthcare AI company, and our customers. Our first choice was IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) (i.e., the “Fort Knox of data security”).

Pros

  • Process sensitive data within a secure enclave
  • Support for common Infrastructure As Code containerized solutions
  • Healthy marketplace for cybersecurity analytics solutions

Cons

  • Support for S390X and x86 architectures in managed Kubernetes
  • Some common frameworks don’t support big-endian architectures. We had to migrate from Apache Parquet to MessagePack because S390X doesn’t support Apache Parquet. Although MessagePack or Protobufs works fine on S390X, it would be nice to have a page of common databases, serialization formats, etc. that have S390X support.
  • Improve the non-native S390X development tools and guides. Most development machines aren’t built on the S390X architecture.

Return on Investment

  • Early-stage startups which process sensitive data face adoption headwinds because their customers are very risk-averse. For example, we discovered that the Operations Team at prospective customers really wanted [...], but the IT Security Team would veto their decision.
  • After describing to the IT Security Teams how [...] uses IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to keep patient data safe, we have had more success convincing healthcare facilities to try [...]. Currently, we are pursuing three opportunities which can be directly attributed to our use of IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
  • Our use of IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), the “Fort Knox of data security”, plays an important role in winning over prospective customers’ IT Security Teams. By using IBM Hyper Protect Services’ confidential computing capabilities to keep protected health information safe, we make a strong commitment to protecting our customers.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)