{"id":10639,"date":"2014-04-29T23:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/30\/ibms-doug-clark-companys-move-towards-ibm-service\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T23:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:44:37","slug":"ibms-doug-clark-on-the-companys-move-towards-ibm-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibms-doug-clark-on-the-companys-move-towards-ibm-as-a-service\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s Doug Clark on the company&#8217;s move towards &#8216;IBM as a service&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earlier this week, IBM announced another series of cloudy launches, chief of which being the IBM Cloud Marketplace, a &lsquo;one stop shop&rsquo; for IBM&rsquo;s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS portfolio. CloudTech caught up with Doug Clark, cloud leader at IBM UK&amp;I, to find out more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everybody is moving to as-a-service,&rdquo; Doug Clark, cloud leader at IBM UK&amp;I says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s almost the entire landscape is moving there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With the release of the IBM Cloud Marketplace, as <em>CloudTech<\/em> reported earlier this week, almost everything in IBM&rsquo;s portfolio is available under one roof &ndash; it&rsquo;s an enterprise app store with a little edge. More interestingly, the branding move towards &lsquo;IBM-as-a-service&rsquo; is gathering pace.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was Ginny [Rometty, IBM chief exec] who I first heard talk about IBM-as-a-service,&rdquo; Clark explains. &ldquo;But what&rsquo;s been exciting for me is when I&rsquo;ve been talking to clients, I&rsquo;ve been using the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, IBM announced another series of cloudy launches, chief of which being the IBM Cloud Marketplace, a &lsquo;one stop shop&rsquo; for IBM&rsquo;s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS portfolio. CloudTech caught up with Doug Clark, cloud leader at IBM UK&#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-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","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=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}