{"id":10334,"date":"2014-03-03T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/03\/ibm-rebrands-cloud-company-moves-1bn-investments-hybrid-play\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:25:13","slug":"ibm-rebrands-as-a-cloud-company-moves-1bn-of-investments-into-hybrid-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-rebrands-as-a-cloud-company-moves-1bn-of-investments-into-hybrid-play\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM rebrands as a cloud company, moves $1bn of investments into hybrid play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s official. IBM is now a cloud company. Big Blue has announced it is to push $1bn (&pound;597.6m) of its resources and investments into cloud, including a developer-friendly platform as a service (PaaS) offering called BlueMix.<\/p>\n<p>The Armonk giant also revealed it was to push SoftLayer into a variety of new zones, including making Watson available on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst a plethora of announcements within the billion dollar investment, IBM SVP software and cloud solutions Robert LeBlanc described it as &ldquo;another significant move in extending true cloud integration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;IBM is ushering in a bold new era of innovation by partnering with developers in an open environment to accelerate the emerging world of hybrid cloud computing,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We are combining the strength of our developer ecosystem with the depth of subject matter expertise to build a scalable model that easily spans from a single developer to global teams &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s official. IBM is now a cloud company. Big Blue has announced it is to push $1bn (&pound;597.6m) of its resources and investments into cloud, including a developer-friendly platform as a service (PaaS) offering called BlueMix.<br \/>\nThe Armonk gian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}