Supplier Report: 11/22/2014

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IBM

  • There is alot of news about IBM’s “BlueMix” Platform as a Service (PaaS) this week.

    Another Bluemix addition that goes hand-in-hand with Dedicated is what IBM called a Private API catalog, a collection of APIs that allow developers to connect their existing on-premise systems with IBM’s Bluemix. An organization can in effect republish its data through Bluemix and make it available as a service, either to other internal developers or external third parties. A company that can’t or doesn’t want to move its data into the cloud at all, even to an isolated instance like Bluemix Dedicated, could use this as a halfway-house solution.

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/2851129/paas/ibm-spins-up-a-new-bare-metal-private-paas.html

  • IBM is going after email with a freemium model.
    They are talking about merging email with social tools, instant messaging, file sharing, and calendars in one tool.  Sounds similar to what Microsoft tried to do with the Outlook relaunch last year.
    http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/11/20/394009-ibm-launch-innovative-new-email-service.htm

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