IBM Opens Bluemix Garage in Toronto

IBM is opening Bluemix Garage centers, where IBM staff provide advice to startups on IBM products that can improve their start-up projects. The company has now opened another consultation center in Toronto with the goal of telling the developers of the Bluemix program who have not worked with this product about the benefits of the Bluemix program.

In addition, the company plans to launch similar centers in Australia, the United States (New York), France (Nice) and Sweden. Bluemix Garage in Toronto will be located on the territory of the DMZ of Ryerson University (Digital Media Zone, Canada’s largest business incubator). Here, company experts will help independent developers and companies understand the capabilities of next-generation cloud applications based on Bluemix. In addition, here enterprises of any size can get acquainted with the developers, as well as get feedback from customers and other companies.

Currently, IBM has invested about $ 1 billion in Bluemix. IBM Bluemix is ​​the latest IBM cloud-based PaaS offering (platform as a service - platform as a service) based on the Cloud Foundry open source project. The IBM Bluemix platform provides enterprise-class features and services that can easily be integrated into cloud applications.
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Bluemix enables organizations and developers to quickly and easily create applications, deploy and manage them in the cloud. IBM Bluemix is ​​an implementation of the IBM Open Cloud Architecture concept, based on the PaaS platform with the open source Cloud Foundry. IBM Bluemix provides enterprise-level services that customers can easily integrate with their cloud-based applications without even having in-depth knowledge about installing and configuring these services.

In addition to additional environments and services, the IBM Bluemix platform contains an information panel that allows customers to create and view applications and services, manage them, and monitor the resources that their application consumes. In addition, the IBM Bluemix Dashboard provides capabilities for managing infrastructure elements, such as organizations and spaces, as well as user access.

From the point of view of IBM developers, Bluemix is an opportunity to further optimize the time spent creating a cloud application. Developers no longer have to worry about installing software or dealing with virtual machine images or hardware. With a few mouse clicks or keys, the developer can initialize instances of his applications with the services needed to support them. This optimization allows you to avoid many hours of time spent on installation, configuration and troubleshooting, and then direct the released time to accelerate the implementation of innovations and to service continuously changing needs.

From the point of view of organizations, IBM Bluemix is ​​a cloud-based platform that requires a very modest level of technical knowledge from the customer and also provides cost savings. IBM Bluemix provides an environment for rapid development for organizations that need to meet their users' demand for new features. The IBM Bluemix cloud platform provides organizations with the flexibility and flexibility of resource management with the rapid growth in application popularity.

From the point of view of users, IBM Bluemix is ​​a key tool that enables an organization to quickly provide users with the functions they need.

Building bridges between developers, organizations, and users allows you to increase the efficiency of developing cloud applications by reducing the level of costs required to develop such a product. Now in the Bluemix toolkit more than 100 tools and services that help you quickly implement a project to create a cloud application, immediately receiving a response from users.

In addition to Toronto, Bluemix Garage centers operate in London, Melbourne, Nice, they are created to perform work in the following areas:
Encourage the use of cloud technologies by innovators . Centers usually open in regions where the community of developers, entrepreneurs, and start-ups is very active. For example, in Bluemix Garage was opened in San Francisco, a city where many representatives of the hi-tech community live and work, and the community is constantly expanding. This allows you to find new partners, to engage new companies in working with the cloud technologies of Bluemix.

Providing developers with access to powerful tools . Bluemix Garage centers provide developers with access to new cloud technologies and cognitive systems, such as Watson. Thus, developers can create applications and software platforms that process a huge amount of data in seconds. This data is generated, for example, by hundreds and thousands of IoT devices (IoT-Internet of Things, Internet of Things), including sensors, wristbands, smart phones, smart home appliances.

Training of representatives of the corporate sector principles of the startup . Here, the center's specialists demonstrate to the representatives of the business sector the opportunity to act quickly, as start-ups do, thanks to which many of them become very famous. In addition, companies are trained to work with startups and help find partners among startups.

Creation of large technological communities . In cities where Bluemix Garage centers are located, there are many business incubators, networking groups and innovation centers. The task of Bluemix Garage specialists is to find points of contact between all these objects and their representatives, and teach them to work together using modern technologies.

Now IBM is actively looking for new regions, where it would be possible to open Bluemix Garage centers in order to organize the joint work of local groups of companies, startups, developers, and to ensure the joint work of the centers themselves. Now, according to the authors of the project, such centers catalyze the creation of start-ups and hi-tech enterprises in the region where Bluemix Garage operates.