{"id":10624,"date":"2014-04-27T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/28\/ibm-launches-enterprise-cloud-marketplace-talks-next-major-step-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2014-04-27T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T23:34:09","slug":"ibm-launches-enterprise-cloud-marketplace-talks-of-next-major-step-in-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-launches-enterprise-cloud-marketplace-talks-of-next-major-step-in-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM launches enterprise cloud marketplace, talks of \u201cnext major step\u201d in portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has announced the launch of the IBM Cloud Marketplace, with Big Blue putting all its cloudy apps and software in one place in what the company calls &ldquo;the next major step in IBM&rsquo;s cloud leadership.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The usual suspects are all there, from 100 SaaS apps, to the newly-launched PaaS developer offering BlueMix, to IaaS package SoftLayer. IBM has categorised each part of the marketplace appropriately &ndash; Biz, described as &ldquo;enterprise-grade business apps to accelerate innovation&rdquo; (SaaS), to Dev (PaaS) and Ops (IaaS).<\/p>\n<p>Some might argue IBM is a little late to the party here, with Salesforce.com already established in the app store front, and other hyper-vendors such as HP more recently getting on board.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this offering is an enterprise app store, but with a little extra on top. As Dominique Vernier, global IT architect for IBM cloud, explains in a blog post: &ldquo;It is a real, single &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has announced the launch of the IBM Cloud Marketplace, with Big Blue putting all its cloudy apps and software in one place in what the company calls &ldquo;the next major step in IBM&rsquo;s cloud leadership.&rdquo;<br \/>\nThe usual suspects are all there&#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-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","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=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}