The launch of IBM Cloud marketplace represents the next major step in IBM’s cloud leadership. This single online destination will serve as the digital front door to cloud innovation bringing together IBM’s capabilities-as-a-service and those of partners and third party vendors.
This marketplace will serve as a cloud innovation hub where technology meets business with hundreds of cloud services from IBM, partners and third party ecosystem. Clients can access a full suite of IBM-as-a-Service with 100 SaaS applications, IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service with composable services, the SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service and third party cloud services.
According to Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Software & Cloud Solutions. “IBM Cloud marketplace puts big data analytics, mobile, social, commerce, integration and the full power of IBM-as-a-Service and our ecosystem at our clients’ fingertips to help them quickly deliver innovative services to their constituents. Several IBM partners including SendGrid, Zend, Redis Labs, Sonian, Flow Search Corp, Deep DB, M2Mi and Ustream have featured a wide array of cloud services on IBM marketplace for enterprise clients.The IBM cloud marketplace will be available to all IBM and non-IBM customers.
Clients can test and experience hundreds of IBM and partner enterprise-grade cloud services online that are open, scalable and secure. Content is dynamically served up by job role and service pages offer easy access for those interested in categories such as Start-ups, Mobile, Gaming and others.
IBM’s cloud marketplace has three key components for Line of Business Professionals:
IBM Cloud marketplace for business will serve as a single stop where business and IT professionals can learn about, deploy and consume over 100 SaaS applications.
For Developers:
IBM’s Cloud marketplace Dev provides an integrated, get-started-now, cloud-based development environment where individual developers, development shops and enterprise development teams can quickly and effectively build enterprise applications via leading services and application protocol interfaces (APIs). These applications can be easily and securely integrated in hybrid on premise and off premise cloud environments. It is uniquely built on an open environment so developers can choose any open source or third party tools and integrate apps, as needed.
For IT Departments:
Ops provides a secure set of cloud services built on Softlayer that help clients deploy cloud services. support high performance businesses at enterprise scale. Services include Big Data, Disaster Recovery, Hybrid environments, Managed Security Services, Cloud Environments for Small and Medium Business among others.