ARMONK, N.Y. and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- IBM InterConnect 2015 -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced
new hybrid cloud technology and investments that will tackle
the biggest challenges enterprises face as they adopt cloud and
integrate existing applications, data and services across a
multitude of traditional systems and clouds.
IBM is delivering a series of technologies and services that
will extend clients' control, visibility, security and governance
in a hybrid cloud environment similar to what clients have in their
private cloud and traditional IT systems. In doing so, IBM will
provide increased data portability across environments and make it
dramatically easier for developers to work across cloud and
non-cloud environments.
IBM is dedicating the talents of more than half its cloud
development team to hybrid cloud innovations, including
hundreds of developers working on open cloud standards. More
than 65 percent of enterprise IT organizations will commit to
hybrid cloud technologies before 2016, vastly driving the rate and
pace of change in IT organizations [1].
Digitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business.
Clouds - public, private and hybrid - enable companies to extend
their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM
Cloud provides the security, control and visibility they have come
to expect and provides the flexibility to run critical applications
and processes in an environment that mirrors existing controls.
Through the SoftLayer infrastructure combined with the new services
IBM is announcing, clients with now have the right tools and
environment to combine all of their data no matter where it resides
to respond to changing market dynamics.
According to IDC, 80 percent of new cloud applications are
predicted to be big-data intensive and much of it born on the
cloud [2], brought on by the convergence of mobile applications,
e-commerce transactions and other Web applications, companies are
struggling to gain value in the data being generated in today's
digital revolution. As a result, businesses are increasingly
struggling with incorporating, managing and gaining insights into
processes and data.
"Today, we are launching a new class of hybrid cloud innovations
that extend open standards capabilities for the enterprise. This
will help break down the barriers between clouds and on premise IT
systems, providing clients with control, visibility and security as
they utilize the public and private clouds," said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM
Cloud. "Data location across an ever growing number of clouds is an
increasing concern for customers and we are unveiling new
portability and developer services to make this easier to
manage."
By surfacing the following services via composable API-based
services in Bluemix, IBM is helping create a hybrid cloud
environment that provides clients with the tools they require to
extend their business to the cloud.
Bringing Portability to Enterprise Applications
New portability services and open standards to easily move
enterprise workloads across environments to bring the app closer to
the data or the data closer to the app, including:
IBM Enterprise Containers: Help developers rapidly build
and deliver applications by extending native Linux containers with
Docker APIs to provide enterprise –class visibility, control and
security as well as an added level of automation. Solutions
developed in a cloud environment could be brought to on-premises
systems for execution, allowing many of the benefits of cloud
computing to be realized for data that cannot be moved to cloud for
processing for reasons of data sensitivity, size, or
performance.
Control, Visibility & Security
New services that extend clients' traditional environment to the
public cloud, including:
IBM DataWorks: New, intuitive tooling and experience to
find, refine, enrich and deliver trusted data. This allows
developers to subdivide and manipulate data sets from the treasure
trove of public and private data.
Collaborative Operations: Enhanced visibility and control
of clients' hybrid environments with a single, end-to-end view.
Orchestration: Available as a service enabling management
across hybrid environments that is the largest federated
orchestration library in the industry.
Security: New features that protect the most vital
data and applications using analytics across the enterprise, public
and private clouds and mobile devices.
Increasing Developer Productivity
New services that enable developers to more quickly,
effectively, and securely connect apps, data and services across an
open and flexible environment of traditional systems, cloud
platforms and any device, seamlessly weaving data and services with
APIs to compose new apps and services, including:
Secure Passport Gateway: Allows self-service to
developers to securely connect data and services to Bluemix in
minutes through a simple Passport service that keeps IT in
control.
API Harmony: Find a perfect API match for a client's
application using the world's largest knowledge base of APIs;
easily expose and manage APIs.
Bluemix Local: Extends Bluemix into a company's data
center with borderless visibility and management across Bluemix
environments (public, dedicated, and local)
IBM unveiled the Watson Zone, a new resource center on Bluemix
that brings together Watson APIs, sample code, training resources
and use cases to help inspire and guide users to build a new class
of hybrid cloud applications infused with cognitive computing
capabilities.
IBM also announced the general availability of the Watson
Personality Insights service, which allows developers to integrate
new capabilities to analyze trends and patterns in diverse, high
volume social media and other public data streams. The commercial
launch follows the addition of five new betas Watson services to Bluemix including Speech to
Text, Text to Speech, Visual Recognition, Concept Insights and
Tradeoff Analytics. These services are available free of charge to
help developers explore potential use cases.
To make much of this possible, many of these new services rely on
open technologies. As a top contributor to a number of open
foundations including Cloud Foundry and OpenStack, IBM has
dedicated hundreds developers to advancing open technologies for
the hybrid cloud market. This has led to using OpenStack services
to provide companies with the means to deploy and manage cloud
workloads, package them in Linux based Docker containers that
ensure an open, extensible approach to portability.
For more information on IBM InterConnect 2015, visit
http://www.ibm.com/press/interconnect2015.
About IBM Cloud: IBM is the global leader in open
enterprise cloud enabling secure data and infrastructure
integration in the cloud. For more information about cloud
offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on
Twitter at @IBMcloud and on our blog at www.thoughtsoncloud.com.
Join the conversation #ibmcloud.
[1] *Source: IDC Reveals Cloud Predictions for 2015,
December 18, 2014
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25350114
[2] *Source: IDC, Key Battles —and Strategies —for Dominance on
the 3rd Platform Mar 2014 Doc # DR2014_GS2_FG
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IBM Media Relations
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