EHNINGEN, Germany, Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that cloud infrastructure from SoftLayer, an
IBM Company, is now being used by Daimler subsidiary
moovel GmbH for its car-sharing mobile application, cars2go to
allow the company to better serve its customers around the world by
helping them find the least expensive or fastest way to travel.
The moovel GmbH portfolio includes the car2go and car2go black
car sharing services, the Park2gether platform and the moovel
smartphone app. car2go is available in 26 cities in Europe and North
America and has over 800,000 customers. The app analyzes the
offerings of transportation services such as the railroad, bike
rental, taxis and car sharing to find the best way to travel and
offers users different suggested routes depending on their
preference of speed, cost or comfort.
moovel GmbH will leverage managed services from IBM, including
DevOps services, to bridge the gap between application development
and IT operations. IBM's managed and DevOps services will allow
moovel GmbH to accelerate the development of software and updates
for its mobility services.
In addition, deploying car2go on SoftLayer's high-performance
cloud platform enables moovel GmbH to deliver its smartphone app to
users around the world securely and reliably. With complete
visibility into the workloads running on SoftLayer's cloud
infrastructure, moovel GmbH is able to help its customers sort,
analyze and make sense of massive amounts of data to deliver
insights on the best suggested routes in seconds.
"Smartphones and mobile devices have changed the relationship
between enterprises and their customers, having given customers the
ability to sort through and digest massive amounts of information
anywhere, at any time," said Martina
Koederitz, General Manager IBM Deutschland GmbH and DACH
IMT. "Built for the enterprise, the IBM Cloud will play a central
role in helping companies like moovel take control of their data to
meet their customers' demands as they transform for this new era of
computing."
IBM is continuing to invest in high growth area and has built
the most expansive cloud portfolio - spanning IaaS, PaaS and SaaS -
to aid enterprise clients in their transition to the Cloud.
Specifically, in 2014 alone, IBM invested in and launched:
- A global network of 40 cloud centers to deliver SoftLayer
infrastructure-as-a-service to every major financial
market.
- Bluemix ,IBM's platform-as-a-service (PaaS), enabling millions
of enterprise developers to build solutions for the hybrid cloud
era
- The IBM Cloud marketplace which provides easy access to the
full range of IBM-as-a-service capabilities for line of business,
IT and software development professionals with a few clicks and the
swipe of a credit card.
SoftLayer's high-performance cloud infrastructure is built for
the enterprise and can be customized to adjust IT infrastructures
at any time to the different services or market requirements of its
customers. It does so by offering a combination of different
deployment models, a built in private network, complete visibility
across workloads and a flexible pay-as-you-go price model.
About Moovel GmbH
moovel GmbH (former Daimler Mobility Services GmbH), a wholly
owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, offers its customers innovative
mobility services from a single source. car2go is the first
carsharing system in the world without fixed rental locations thus
creating a new segment: smart fortwo cars can be rented anywhere
and at any time for a reasonable price. car2go vehicles can be
located and booked spontaneously via a smartphone app or the
website. car2go currently operates in 26 locations worldwide with
11,000 smart fortwo cars and more than 800,000 customers. car2go
black is Germany's first entirely
smartphone-based premium carsharing service and uses Mercedes-Benz
B-Class cars. The service works with fixed parking points
where customers can start and finish the rental. The service
started in February 2014 with 200
cars in Berlin and Hamburg.
With the moovel brand, moovel GmbH offers an intuitive
smartphone app that enables customers to compare various mobility
options on the basis of several parameters, and then choose the
best options for traveling from Point A to Point B. The company's
other activities include Park2gether, an innovative solution for
searching and reserving parking spaces in cities, and the creation
of carsharing services for commercial fleets.
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of
open cloud solutions to enable clients for the hybrid cloud era
with integration, control over data and expertise. IBM Cloud has
helped more than 30,000 clients around the world. Today, IBM
has 100+ cloud SaaS solutions, thousands of experts with deep
industry knowledge helping clients transform and a growing global
network of cloud centers. Since 2007, IBM has invested more
than $7 billion in 17 acquisitions to
accelerate its cloud initiatives. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents
focused on driving innovation. In fact, IBM for the 21st
consecutive year topped the annual list of US patent leaders. IBM
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