With more and more cloud services accumulating — public, private, hybrid, etc. — companies that want to move to the cloud may find themselves confused about where to start. Each company’s trajectory is unique, which might seem to further complicate things, but if you take stock of where you stand and what your goals are, you may find the answers are closer at hand than they seem.

René Bostic (@ReneBosticAtIBM), VP of Software and Services Technical Sales at IBM, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the IBM Open Cloud Architecture Summit about how IBM helps customers choose among the many paths to cloud.

“It all starts with where the customer is coming into the journey,” she said. “And we have at IBM a cloud capability maturity model. And what we do is we work with our clients and see, do they know anything about cloud today? And if they do, then we go on that,” she explained.

The key, Bostic said, is that “you want to come from a solutions perspective and not from a product or technology perspective.”

Garage mix

Bostic spoke enthusiastically about a project at IBM that offers hands-on assistance with development. “We have a Bluemix Garage where we have a design methodology, and customers can come in and actually bring in their applications, their ideas, and then we can help them develop that,” she explained.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the IBM Open Cloud Architecture Summit.

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