IBM Bluemix™ is IBM’s™ innovative cloud computing platform that combines platform as a service (PaaS) with infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Additionally, Bluemix™ has a rich catalog of cloud services that can be easily integrated with PaaS and IaaS to build business applications rapidly. IBM Bluemix™ has cloud deployments that fit your needs whether you are a small business that plans to scale, or a large enterprise that requires additional isolation. You can develop in a cloud without borders, where you can connect your private services to the public Bluemix™ services available from IBM™. You and your team can access the apps, services, and infrastructure in Bluemix™ and use existing data, systems, processes, PaaS tools, and IaaS tools. Developers can tap into the rapidly growing ecosystem of available services and run time frameworks to build applications using polyglot programming approaches. With IBM Bluemix™, you no longer have to make large investments in hardware to test out or run a new app. Instead, we manage it all for you and only charge for what you use. The IBM Internet of Things™—this service lets your apps communicate with, and consume data that is collected by, your connected devices, sensors, and gateways.

IBM™ recipes make it easy to get devices connected to the IBM Internet of Things cloud. Your apps can then use our real—time and REST APIs to communicate with your devices and consume the data you’ve set them up to collect. IBM Bluemix™ provides public, dedicated, and local integrated deployment models. You can take an idea from inception, to development sandbox, to a globally distributed production environment with compute and storage infrastructure, open source platform services and containers, and software services and tools from IBM™, Watson™, and more. Beyond the capabilities of the platform itself, IBM Bluemix™ also provides flexible deployment. Provision IBM Bluemix™ resources on premises, in dedicated private cloud environments, or in the public cloud, and manage the resources from all three types of environments in a single dashboard. All IBM™ cloud resources that are deployed in public and dedicated environments are hosted from your choice of IBM Cloud Data Center™ locations around the world. IBM Cloud Data Centers™ provide regional redundancy, a global network backbone connecting all data centers and points of presence, and stringent security controls and reporting.

Infrastructure

The Infrastructure dashboard provides various services to fit your cloud infrastructure needs. IBM Bluemix™ infrastructure provides the highest performing cloud infrastructure available. IBM Bluemix™ infrastructure is one platform, which takes data centers around the world that are full of the widest range of cloud computing options, then integrates and automates everything. IBM Cloud Data Centers™ are filled with first class computing, storage, and networking gear. Each location is built, outfitted, and operated in the same way, so you get exactly the same capabilities and availability anywhere where we are present. Deploy high performance compute and storage infrastructure in secure IBM Cloud Data Centers™ around the world. Test and adopt a broad range of cloud services and capabilities from IBM™, open source communities, and third—party developers. You can connect to all of your legacy systems and apps from a single, scalable, cloud platform through private network and API capabilities. Spin up and turn down resources in real—time as your business needs or workload demands change. Blockchain is a peer—to—peer distributed ledger technology for a new generation of transactional applications that establishes trust, accountability, and transparency while streamlining business processes.

Applications

IBM Bluemix™ provides various ways for you to run your apps, for example, Cloud Foundry™ and IBM Bluemix Container Service™. Use IBM Bluemix Container Service™ to run Docker™ containers in a hosted cloud environment on IBM Bluemix™. You can use IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk™ for distributed, event—driven computing. OpenWhisk™ runs application logic in response to events or direct invocations from web or mobile apps over HTTP. You can use IBM Bluemix™ mobile services to incorporate pre built, managed, and scalable cloud services into your mobile apps. The Apps dashboard provides everything you need to get your apps up and running, and to manage those apps while they run. IBM Bluemix™ provides various boiler plates and run times; A boilerplate is a template for an application and its associated run time environment and predefined services for a specific domain. A run time is the set of resources that is used to run an app, provided as containers for different types of apps. IBM™ offers a mobile back—end infrastructure where you can build multi platform, native, or hybrid apps while also being able to monitor and test them. You can also enhance your app with analytics, security, user insight, and continuous delivery.

Features And Benefits

Locations are connected by the industry’s most advanced network—in—a—network, which integrates distinct public, private, and internal management networks to deliver lower total networking costs, better access, and higher speed. Also, the data centers and network share a single proprietary management system. One management tool lets you control everything—every bare metal server, virtual server, and storage device — all accessible by API, portal, and mobile applications. The Services dashboard provides access to the IBM Bluemix™ services available from IBM™ and third—party providers. These include IBM Watson™, Internet of Things, Analytics, Mobile, and IBM DevOps™ services. When you adopt IBM DevOps™ practices and create a culture of innovation and agility, you can use iterative practices and change direction in response to the market. IBM Watson™—give your apps the power of cognitive computing with a full suite of speech, vision, and data APIs. Solve your most complex business problems by deploying a cognitive platform with IBM Watson™ services. IBM™ enables you to do more with rich, integrated cloud databases and data and analytics services.