IBM Cloud Technical Advocate case studies
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IBM Cloud Technical Advocate - also referred to as IBM Certified Advocate - Cloud v5 - is an IBM Professional Certification credential positioned for technical sellers, solution advisers, pre-sales engineers and architects who must explain cloud concepts and IBM Cloud offerings to customers in business terms while staying technically credible. The role blends value framing with enough architectural depth to discuss compute choices, storage and networking, security and identity, application modernization and AI services, and cost and account governance without hand-waving. The IBM Cloud Technical Advocate case studies are 5 cases and about 4,435 words.
1Lift-and-Shift Versus Re-Platform for a Freight Broker Facing a Refresh Deadline
Northline Freight is a 900-person freight brokerage. Its estate is 46 on-premises VMs: a Java EE booking application on WebSphere across 6 VMs, two Oracle 11g database VMs, a nightly rating batch engine, and 12 TB of scanned bills of lading on a NAS.
880 words, about 4 min2Sizing Compute for a Ticket-Intake API with Violent Month-End Peaks
LedgerLine processes parking-ticket images for 40 municipal customers. Its Spring Boot API takes about 6 million uploads a month: roughly 150 requests per second during business hours, with two month-end peaks that reach about 1,400 requests per second for 90 minutes each, and near-zero traffic between 02:00 and 05:00.
897 words, about 4 min3Archiving 900 TB of Retail Records with Immutability and No Public Endpoints
Harborlight Retail operates 1,100 stores and must keep seven years of point-of-sale and invoice records for tax authorities: about 900 TB, most of it older than 18 months, currently on tape in a Cincinnati data center behind a NAS front end. Only about 4 TB is touched in a typical month.
888 words, about 4 min4Least Privilege and Customer-Controlled Keys in a 140-Engineer Payments Account
Meridian Health Pay adjudicates payments for 300 clinics. Its IBM Cloud account holds 140 engineers in six product teams, three environments (dev, staging, prod) collapsed into a single resource group, and 62 service IDs whose API keys were pasted into Git history over two years.
892 words, about 4 min5Modernizing a Claims Monolith While Adding a Cited Document Assistant
Calder Insurance runs a 12-year-old Java EE claims monolith on 14 on-premises VMs backed by a 350 GB Oracle database. Releases happen about 40 times a year and consume a full weekend; two teams routinely block each other on the shared database.
878 words, about 4 min