Bluemix in the News

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InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas is now over, but it brought a plethora of announcements! This concise post will summarize announcements, videos, and events about Bluemix that you won’t want to miss.

Announcements

• How IBM Stole Google’s Thunder
  “Google really wanted to announce this and then all of a sudden IBM did a ninja move, and it was IBM’s deal,” said one source close to VMware who had knowledge of the process.
• GitHub Enterprise is coming to IBM’s Bluemix
  IBM and GitHub will deliver GitHub Enterprise as a dedicated service on Bluemix across private and hybrid cloud environments, giving corporate developers a new way to code and work with GitHub’s collaborative development tools in a private, controlled environment.
• Apple gives IBM huge leg up in cloud wars and IBM puts Swift in the cloud
  IBM Cloud becomes the first cloud computing platform to support the smash hit Apple Swift programming language. It provides enterprise app developers with is a set of tools for writing software in Swift that’s intended to run on servers, rather than smartphones.
• IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk: Radically simplifying the development process
  OpenWhisk, a distributed compute service for developing and executing application logic in response to events, provides a rich set of building blocks that they can easily glue/stitch together, enabling developers to focus more on value-adding business logic and less on low-level infrastructural and operational details.
• IBM WebSphere Connect extends WebSphere portfolio to the cloud
  Announcing IBM WebSphere Connect, which extends IBM’s industry leading WebSphere portfolio to the cloud. With more than 200 million global licenses of WebSphere, IBM’s middleware portfolio is the leading platform for Java EE.

Videos

• Game On: A Microservice-based Adventure Game
  Create a sample microservices-based game and demonstrate how micro service architectures work from two points of view, as a player and also as a developer; part of the IBM Cloud Architecture Center.
• An Updated Overview and Demonstration of IBM Bluemix
  Replacing the popular introduction video, David Barnes gives an updated overview of IBM Bluemix and demonstrate how you can build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud.
• InterConnect related videos from theCUBE, IBM Cloud Computing, and developerWorks.

Events

• InterConnect 2016: Cloud is not the destination, it’s the innovation platform
  Quick recap of the week at InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas.
• Treehacks: A Hacker’s Valentine
  Hundreds of students gathered at Stanford University for 36 hours of pure innovation and hacking. Armed with endless snacks and caffeine, hackers quickly found a place to camp out and turn their ideas into reality.
• IBM Cloud Foundry Dojo Launch
  IBM is pleased to launch the new RTP Cloud Foundry Dojo at the Frontier! Join us for this celebratory evening featuring guest speakers from Cloud Foundry Foundation, the Frontier and IBM.
• O’Reilly Fluent: Spotlighting the crucial tools and technologies of the Web
  Leaders in the web development world will descend upon San Francisco March 7-10 to spotlight the crucial tools and technologies of the Internet.

Top Posts

• Facebook: IBM And VMware hope to move millions to IBM’s Cloud
  IBM just took a big swing in its fight to grab a seat at the table of major cloud computing players with Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
• Blog: Introducing the Swift Runtime for IBM Bluemix
  Providing easy access to Swift on Linux is essential to help the community explore and build new server-side capabilities in Swift. With this same aim of radical simplification, IBM announces availability of the Swift Runtime in IBM Bluemix.
• Twitter: Out-thinking old school: Using games to teach cognitive computing
  Teacher uses video game design at an at-risk high school as a means to expose them to topics that connect to serious issues, such as the prevention of child obesity, sustainable energy, and health-based games.