Networking & Software Defined Networks

Our efforts focus on the next generation of programmable networking for applications, distributed in multiple cloud and edge locations.
Together with RedHat, we’re creating open-source network control and data planes that focus on applications' needs and knowledge.
The research areas involved include: structure and mechanisms for secure and scalable control plane and a lightweight and programmable network data-path solution.

Data Governance and Compliance

We are making it easier for customers to automatically handle different types of data governance and compliance with policies. Using process simplification, automated tools, and reuse, we are helping improve the quality of data observability and the enforcement of regulations for privacy and security. Our efforts are part of the IBM data fabric.

Custom-Policy Automation

We are developing technologies for policy-as-code to make IBM's security and compliance the best of breed. These technologies enable the reuse of policies in different use cases through a single data model and a single policy language. This technology also helps increase the quality of policies (debugging, testing, analysis, etc.)

API Test Generation

We are accelerating the modernization transformation process by automating some of the tasks that are currently performed manually, and validating the functional correctness of the transformation. To achieve these goals, we are employing automated test generation techniques at different levels: system/UI, service/API, and unit.

Observability

Now a crucial component for successful enterprise customer deployments, observability refers to the capacity to collect operational data, contextualize, aggregate, and extract insights,. We focus on logging and networking observability solutions that make operations easy and automated. We promote observability in the open to encourage standardization that will enable observability data collection and reasoning over different software stacks.