IBM Cloud

It is simply how cloud virtualization was engineered.

I lead product management for confidential containers on IBM Cloud, so I think about this problem daily.

But rather than pitching hardware features, let us look at the structural security gap in standard containers, what hardware-level protection actually solves, and whether your organization genuinely needs it.

The security blind spot nobody liked to mention.

One, regulated data and strict audit mandates under regulations like the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act, DORA, PCI, DSS V four zero, and escalating HIPAA enforcement.

Financial institutions and healthcare providers must prove data isolation during runtime.

Deploying workloads on platforms like Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud equipped with IBM Cloud confidential containers allows compliance teams to present cryptographic attestation to auditors rather than relying solely on policy documents.

Two, high-value AI inference and proprietary models.

Okay.

They had asked, it was IBM Cloud, so they had asked us to build multi-tenancy into the platform as a precondition for doing any business with them.

So we spent like half a year building this in a way that would be suitable for like a very, very scalable cloud.

And then all their management got fired and we never got a deal there and we were pretty butthurt.

Yeah.

Or is this something they're going to make universal and they ex- extend it to, you know, IBM Cloud or Oracle Cloud-

Mm-hmm

... or an Alibaba, et cetera, right? So-