IBM sponsors Scrum conference in Dublin
Thursday, November 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Scrum Alliance announced that its European Global Scrum Gathering has kicked off in Dublin with IBM as its top sponsor.“Reshaping the company in fundamental ways to fuel a culture of collaboration, IBM has embarked on an Agile journey that focuses on their customers’ needs,” said Scrum Alliance interim CEO Lisa Hershman. “We are thrilled to have IBM as our title sponsor...
IBM launches Blockchain Founder Accelerator
Friday, May 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced the IBM Blockchain Founder Accelerator to help enterprises and enterprise developers take blockchain networks into production faster. The accelerator is the first program available that provides expertise and support across the technology, legal and business considerations of establishing new blockchain networks. Enterprises can join to gain exclusive ...
What's happening at IBM Interconnect 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
At IBM Interconnect, IBM’s largest cloud computing event of the year, they have announced a whole laundry list of new news items - like client adoption, tech breakthroughs and work they are doing to arm the next gen of cognitive developers. Here's a brief overview on what you might be missing at their latest event:IBM Cloud announcementsNew software and services designe...
IBM and Cisco announced expanded solutions for VersaStack
Thursday, March 9, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Cisco and IBM announced new solutions for VersaStack, converged infrastructure jointly developed by the two companies. VersaStack helps organizations reduce complexity and automate processes to accelerate the delivery of applications. The additional technologies incorporated in the announcement today extend VersaStack to include hybrid cloud capabilities and also take a...
IBM Bluemix Runtime Makes Swift Ready for Enterprise
Thursday, September 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced the IBM Bluemix Runtime for Swift, a production-ready Swift runtime on the IBM Cloud for public, dedicated and local deployments. With this release, IBM has made Swift ready for enterprise development.
What's New:
- Enterprises can now build next generation apps in Swift on both client and server-side on the IBM Cloud....
Create Virtual Agents and Chat Bots with IBM Watson Conversation
Thursday, July 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
IBM is moving its Watson Conversation solution into general availability. The platform offers the opportunity to build Virtual Agents and Chat Bots that offer natural conversation flows by combining a series of cognitive techniques: defining intents and entities and crafting dialog to simulate conversation, all in one integrated service. Watson Conversation of...
Mendix Platform is Now Available on IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Mendix has announced that its application development Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) is now available on IBM’s Bluemix Cloud platform. The Mendix platform uses visual development, agile project management and one-click deployment capabilities for web, mobile and IoT applications. Through the Bluemix integration developers can use the platform with IBM’s cloud,...
Global DevOps Market Predictions Suggests a 20 Percent Annual Growth Rate
Monday, April 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
According to the “Global DevOps Platform Market 2016-2020”, created by the research firm Research and Markets, the DevOps market should see a steady growth rate of around 20 percent (CAGR of 19.42%) through the end of the decade.The report covers the present scenario and the future growth prospects of the global DevOps platform market through 2020. To calculate the mark...
IBM Opens Bluemix Garage in France
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM is opening a new Bluemix Garage in Nice, France to help European based companies’ development and design of apps on IBM Cloud.This is the fourth location worldwide (also located in San Francisco, Toronto, London) of the Bluemix Garage, which offer physical hubs where multi-disciplinary teams, including developers, product managers and designers, can collaborate with...
IBM Releases Beta of New Cloud Based Alert Notification Service
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has released a new Alert Notification Service on IBM Cloud which allows DevOps teams to receive and respond to early, critical alerts about potential issues concerning their applications, before users are affected.Now available in beta on IBM’s Bluemix Cloud Platform, the IBM Alert Notification Service works with the real-time and historical network analytics of IBM...
AT&T Developer Summit Hosts Biggest Hackathon Yet with Over $250,000 Up for Grabs
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The developer world is set to experience one of the biggest hackathons of the year on January 2–3, 2016. Developers will flock to Las Vegas during that time for a chance to win over US$250,000 in cash and prizes at the AT&T Developer Summit hackathon.It’s the biggest hackathon prize pool of the year, bar none. And participating is free! I like the word “plethora” to...
IBM Introduces API Harmony API Matchmaking Technology
Thursday, November 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has launched API Harmony, which offers intelligent cloud-based API matchmaking technology to help developers search public APIs and find interesting relationships among them. API Harmony uses cognitive technologies like intelligent mapping and graph technology to anticipate what a developer will require to build new apps, make recommendations on which APIs to use, s...
IBM IoT Foundation Offers ARM mbed IoT Developer Starter Kit
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM’s Internet of Things (IoT) platform - IBM IoT Foundation – has announced an integration with ARM to provide out of the box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services. The integration will allow large quantities of data from devices such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring devices to be gathered, analyzed and acted ...
IBM's Bluemix PaaS Provides New Analytics Capabilities
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has released a new set of services for its Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that provides developers with new analytics capabilities into cloud-based applications.The new IBM Cloud tools are designed to help developers broaden the capabilities of their applications to give users a more robust cloud experience that enables integration of data analytics and visual...
IBM Opens Third Bluemix Garage in Canada
Friday, August 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has continued the expansion of its Bluemix Garage with a new location in Toronto, Canada. Bluemix Garages are intended to provide a regional resource to connect companies with IBM expertise in cloud applications.Toronto is the third Bluemix Garage, following San Francisco and London. Further expansion is planned with the additions of Nice, France and Melbourne, Aust...
IBM Launches New Internet of Things Learning Portal for Developers
Friday, August 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has created a new IoT portal, IBM developerWorks Recipes, designed to help developers learn how to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and how to use data coming from those connected devices.Through developerWorks Recipes, developers can access materials providing guidance in the creation, management and connection of IoT devices to each other and ...
IBM Adds Services to Bluemix Cloud Development Platform
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has introduced several new services designed to help developers create analytics-driven cloud applications on the Bluemix cloud development platform.The services are designed to make it easier for developers to create cloud applications for mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), supply chain analytics and intelligent infrastructure solutions. This most recent releas...
IBM Announces $3 Billion IoT Initiative
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced that it plans to spend $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) business unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.These resources will be made available on an open platform to provide manufacturers with the ability to design and p...
IBM to Partner with Twitter to Market Twitter Data to Enterprises
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
IBM has inked a deal with Twitter to bring to the enterprise the reams of Twitter data created each day. According to an IBM, the collaboration will focus on three areas: Integration of Twitter data with IBM analytics services on the cloudIBM plans to offer Twitter data as part of new cloud-based services, including IBM Watson Analytics, a new cognitive servi...
