{"id":16139,"date":"2015-07-22T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jul\/23\/ibm-unveils-developer-friendly-open-source-cloud-projects\/"},"modified":"2015-07-22T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:22:16","slug":"ibm-unveils-developer-friendly-open-source-cloud-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-unveils-developer-friendly-open-source-cloud-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM unveils developer friendly open source cloud projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/Graffizone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IBM is ramping up its commitment to open source technologies by releasing a new platform which enables developers to build cloud applications.<\/p>\n<p>The platform, called developerWorks Open, allows developers to not only download the code but have access to blogs and videos, comprising a global network to accelerate development projects.<\/p>\n<p>IBM has had more than 20 years in the open source computing biz, becoming a main player in projects such as Apache, Linux and Eclipse. Big Blue is a platinum member of the OpenStack foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jul\/17\/google-signs-openstack-foundation-tries-get-jump-microsoft-and-amazon\/\">which announced a partnership with Google<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also spearheading a project called Academic Initiative for Cloud, where the next generation of developers will be equipped with IBM&rsquo;s platform as a service offering Bluemix. More than 200 universities in 36 countries have signed up for the initiative, meaning cloud development curricula can potentially reach more than 20,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, there is a benefit for IBM &ndash; if the next generation are good, and used to Bluemix technology, then Big Blue can snap them up. It&rsquo;s similar to Rackspace, another big open source advocate, investing in a data science boot camp for PhD students last year.<\/p>\n<p>But developerWorks Open is also about giving something back. IBM is open sourcing a number of its MobileFirst apps &ndash; 10 more of which quietly hit the stands this week as part of IBM and Apple&rsquo;s ongoing partnership &ndash; for a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail, insurance and banking.<\/p>\n<p>IBM argues developerWorks Open comes at &ldquo;an important time&rdquo; for cloud developers, stressing the need to simplify implementations. Dr Angel Diaz, VP cloud architecture and technology, said: &ldquo;IBM firmly believes that open source is the foundation of innovative application development in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With developerWorks Open, we are open sourcing additional IBM innovations that we feel have the potential to grow the community and ecosystem and eventually become established technologies,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/Graffizone<br \/>\nIBM is ramping up its commitment to open source technologies by releasing a new platform which enables developers to build cloud applications.<br \/>\nThe platform, called developerWorks Open, allows developers to not only download the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16140,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions\/16140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}