ARMONK, N.Y., July 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced that developers and IT managers across
the U.S. cited IBM Bluemix as one of the fastest growing and one of
the most widely adopted platforms as a service (PaaS) according to
a new survey from the analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group
(ESG).
According to ESG's analysis of the survey results, Bluemix
adoption is growing at a rate 5 times faster on average than the
other leading vendors in the PaaS market. The survey results
encompass hundreds of North American developers and IT managers who
ranked IBM Bluemix ahead of the competition in areas including
internal application development, PaaS satisfaction, PaaS benefits
and future IT needs. IBM also won high praise for Bluemix being the
world's largest Cloud Foundry deployment, with more than 150 APIs
and services in 179 countries.
Other survey findings include:
- Bluemix is growing more than 5X faster than the leading PaaS
vendors based on average growth since general availability.
- Bluemix was one of the fastest growing platforms across
developers and IT managers who are either using Bluemix or
evaluating what PaaS to use.
- Bluemix developers are more focused on custom application
development than any other PaaS vendor.
- Benefits where Bluemix maintained a leadership positon over
other PaaS vendors included access to a wide range of PaaS
capabilities and the ability to improve the quality of their
applications.
- Areas where Bluemix drove levels of satisfaction to levels
higher than any other PaaS vendor included mobile application
development capabilities, security features and cost
effectiveness.
- Over the next two years, Bluemix users indicated that the
platform would remain critical to their application development
needs versus using other tools from competitive vendors.
The survey results reinforce IBM's success and traction in
hybrid cloud. IBM's total cloud revenue --- including public,
private and hybrid engagements --- was $11.6
billion over the previous 12 months that ended in
June 2016. IBM's cloud delivered as a
service business had an annual run rate of $6.7 billion in Q2, up 50 percent year to year, a
subset of the total, which includes PaaS.
"The platform-as-a-service market is experiencing high growth
and currently favors well established application development and
deployment vendors who provide both PaaS and IaaS capabilities,"
said Stephen D. Hendrick, principal
analyst for application development research at ESG.
Cloud providers are taking notice of this shift to capture
business from developers and IT managers who want more
sophisticated cloud offerings, such as mission-critical application
development, testing and deployment delivered through PaaS.
IBM is adding 20,000 new developers to Bluemix each week,
helping companies launch more than 120,000 new apps a month,
including support for cognitive/Watson, Internet of Things and blockchain.
Bluemix also boasts a catalog of more than 150 APIs from IBM and
partners like GitHub and Gigster, who are all adopting IBM Cloud.
In addition, 200+ universities, and thousands of startups use IBM
Bluemix and the company's Garages (San
Francisco, London,
Toronto, Tokyo, Singapore, Nice and New York), with more launching in 2016
(Melbourne).
About IBM Cloud
For more information on IBM Cloud
visit: www.ibm.com/cloud-computing.
Press Contact:
Andre
Fuochi
IBM
469-394-7274
afuochi@us.ibm.com
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