ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- DockerCon -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) is announcing the
delivery of industry leading enterprise class containers, that make
it easier for clients to deliver production applications across
their hybrid environments.
Containers give developers flexibility to build once and move
applications without the need to rewrite or redeploy their code.
IBM Containers, based on Docker and built on Bluemix, IBM's
platform-as-a-service, provide a more efficient environment that
enables faster integration and access to analytics, big data and
security services. Enterprises will now be able to use the
combination of IBM, Docker, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack to create a
new generation of portable distributed applications.
Also announced today, IBM has become a founding member of a
coalition of partners and users to create the Open Container
Platform (OCP) that will ensure that containers are interoperable.
The creation of the OCP will produce a collaborative environment
that fosters the rapid growth of container-based solutions,
offering developers a single industry agreed upon approach and
direction.
"Our ongoing partnership with IBM has been a great win for the
rapidly growing number of enterprises and startups alike that see
Docker as the foundation for a new generation of business critical
distributed applications," Nick
Stinemates, VP, business development & technical
alliances for Docker. "By making a production ready, Docker-based
container service, available for developers, IBM is emphasizing a
faster time to value and inspiring millions of developers to
leverage the growing opportunity of innovating in the cloud."
Modern developers need more than basic execution of containers
in the cloud. Containers should be empowered with advanced
capabilities allowing production applications to be deployed and
managed with ease, giving developers the freedom to focus on
innovation. The IBM Container service provides significant business
benefits to the enterprise that centers on a faster time to market,
seamless application portability, higher confidence and reliability
for enterprise applications; resulting in an overall reduced
development time and cost through a more efficient configuration
management across the DevOps value chain.
IBM Containers accomplish this through:
- Integrated Tools such as log analytics, performance
monitoring and delivery pipeline simplifying life cycle
management
- Elastic Scaling and Auto Recovery providing resources
when needed them most
- Zero Downtime Deployments utilizing Active Deploy
ensuring users are never impacted by application enhancements
- Private Overlays, Load Balancing and Automated Routing
enabling capabilities to address even the most complex business
requirements
- Support for Persistent Storage allowing data-centric
application creation
- Automated Image Security and Vulnerability Scanning with
Vulnerability Advisor alerts to security weaknesses before
deployment
- Access to Bluemix Services, a powerful catalog of over
100 cloud services including Watson, Analytics, IoT and Mobile
Additionally, IBM has demonstrated Industry's best performance
of Java on Docker. IBM Java is optimized to be two times faster and
occupies half the memory when used with the IBM Containers Service.
Moreover, as a Docker based service, IBM Containers include open
features and interfaces such as the new Docker Compose
orchestration services.
As a unique reseller of the Docker Trusted Registry, IBM is the
first to fully integrate the on-premise Docker Trusted Registry
software with its flagship DevOPs and Cloud offerings, beginning
with IBM UrbanCode and IBM Pure Application Systems. Through this
relationship, IBM is again enabling containers for enterprise
production workloads in hybrid cloud deployment.
The DevOps support of IBM Containers enable enterprises to
build, automate and orchestrate the deployment of multi-platform,
multi-container and traditional workloads together in application
environments. Regardless of the phases of the application or
delivery pipeline—development, test, staging, production—IBM
Containers help move these workloads across various cloud
environments with enterprise-class management and security. By
working across hybrid clouds and integrating with both on-premises
Docker Trusted Registry and cloud-based IBM Container services,
developers can easily navigate any cloud development need.
Mindjet taps Bluemix for rapid application development using
IBM Containers
Mindjet is a late-stage startup known
best for Spigit, a crowdsourcing platform for innovation with
hundreds of large enterprise customers and over 4 million users.
With annual growth of over 30%, the Spigit team saw operations
costs increases and scaling limitations of its existing
infrastructure, slowing Mindjet's pace of innovation and limiting
its capacity to add new users.
Mindjet turned to IBM Cloud for its strong enterprise expertise
and cloud services enabling increased innovation for their clients.
Using IBM Containers on Bluemix, Mindjet helped its development
teams operate more efficiently, innovate with speed, improve
engagement and boost productivity; resulting in application
deployment times of mere seconds.
"While we started our application development on Heroku, it
wasn't long before the resulting operations costs started to
overtax our team, limiting us in terms of development pace and
capabilities," said James Gardner,
CTO at Mindjet. "The agile and open capabilities of IBM's Bluemix,
including the new Docker-based IBM Container services, helped us
cut our deployment times to mere seconds and increase our freedom
to do what every startup wants to do more of, focus on innovation
for our clients."
Even though Mindjet evaluated other cloud platforms and
providers, including HP; it was IBM's Bluemix that offered the
supercharged scalability required to meet the demands of their
enterprise clients. Mindjet also used the IBM Bluemix Garage team
to incorporate several DevOps services into their operations
achieving seamless integration and controlled production
deployment.
World class support of Docker-based containers is a high
priority for enterprise clients who want to leverage containers
with production applications. Containers have proved to be
effective in a number of enterprises in industries such as
financial services, hospitality, retail, healthcare, cloud service
providers and others. Many of these large enterprises, as well as
startups like Mindjet, worked side-by-side with IBM on the creation
of IBM Containers by building and deploying real-world scenarios,
which prove containers can be leveraged for enterprise production
applications.
IBM total cloud revenue—covering public, private and hybrid
engagements—was $7.7 billion over the
previous 12 months at the end of March
2015; it grew more than 60 percent in first quarter 2015.
IBM's cloud delivered as a service business, a subset of the total,
includes PaaS offerings such as Bluemix.
About Mindjet
Mindjet is based in San Francisco, CA with operations in five
countries across North America,
Europe and Asia, and customers in financial services,
telecommunications, healthcare, and technology. Mindjet's Spigit
crowdsourcing software helps companies unleash the power of their
employees, partners and customers to drive innovation. Spigit helps
companies find the best ideas, execute them, and drive business
change for innovation. Spigit customers have driven over
$1 billion dollars in incremental
revenue and over 200 patents using Spigit. To learn more, visit
http://www.mindjet.com/spigitengage/
Media contact:
Alexander Aizenberg
IBM Media Relations
212 671 9616
aizenberg@us.ibm.com
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