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IBM Cloud Development: April 2014 Highlights and Future Plans

Discover the latest developments in IBM Cloud for April 2014, including key events, user feedback, and upcoming strategies for global expansion. Explore the highlights from both GCG and India regions, as well as valuable insights into the journey towards a more developer-friendly and robust PaaS offering. From localized UI enhancements to expansion plans and ecosystem building initiatives, delve into the evolving landscape of IBM Cloud services.

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IBM Cloud Development: April 2014 Highlights and Future Plans

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  1. EcoD 1H2014 Cloud Scorecard 1 IBM Confidential

  2. What Happened Last Month [April-14]

  3. What’s next: IBM Confidential 3

  4. GCG "We are so pleased to attend this Kickoff and see finally IBM put together a Developer friendly PaaS in its Cloud and engage Chinese Developer in its early product life. When can we use this for production in China? ” Chen Liang, Sr Mgr, KingDee • GCG Highlights • 1st of 7 1st round Bluemix Days on April 17, sold out events with 35+ partners include KingDee, nantian, ECData, Lake Tai etc) • IIC Shanghai developed fully localized intro and demo featuring Weibo(China’s Twitter integration) • 10 Bluemix Blast planned with Top partners • Feedback from participants • Translated UI and How-to Guide in Chinese language will allow much wider developer adoption and referrals • Developers suggested we add video intro and demo on Bluemix.net (English voice OK) • Key Bluemix services stability can be improved, (MongoDB, SQL service down during live Demo or hands on lab)

  5. India • India Highlights • 10-10-10: 10 SIs, 10 ISVs 10 City India BlueMix days planned • Aggressive outreach via 3rd party developer events • 1st wave of 20 IBM lab mentors assigned to coach Developers and partners • Hands on lab let developers bring in their own apps to enable on Bluemix • Dr Dobbs Dev Conference @Pune – Apr 15 • “Finally IBM is building a PaaS - IBM is late in the game. How is this different than Heroku, OpenShift and AWS” – Developer looks for factual and competitive differentiators. • The key value that resonate with developers: IBM putting Enterprise computing capability on Bluemix PaaS – Developers look for contents such as ECM, More run time (PHP), Big Data such as Splunk • “when will it be available in India commercially and how much it costs?” Developers care about business model from Day 1 • Feedback from Bluemix Days • Like: Simplicity and “boiler plates” to help me get started quickly, IBM software easy to use for Developers. • Want: Enterprise quality monitoring service built in – e.g. added Redis service but cannot view status

  6. Developing a Cloud Ecosystem of Developers- ‘Sweet 16’ Increase awareness Cool outreach Increase learning Skills & Education • Blitz: Project-side-Project, Village Hall. Brunet /Swanson Q2 • BlueMix startup challenge Jackson Q2 • App Throwdown at every IBM Conference & Watson mobile developer challenge Brunet Q1 • Trending hot BlueMix Projects- Showcase Brunet Q2 • Partner roadshows (Twilio) & David and Goliath Yoon Q2 • IBM Content Incentive for IBMers - $1M Carter/Poole Q2 • BlueMix Days 100 at IICs and Top 300 ISV & Industry accounts Tafuri Q2 • Hackathons at Top 20 Comp Sci Schools Brunet Q1-Qx • Seed Bluemix How-to/Tutorials on Github, Stackoverflow, dW Poole/ Brunet Q2 • Expand Dev conferences by 2x in 2014 and a gigantic developer conference in 2015 Poole Q1 Simplify consumption Let them do more Drive adoption Speed and flexibility • Bundles, marketplace, 1-stop shop, SDK, and Linux on Power to use all IBM Cloud Robinson Q2 • Expand Use of Analytics/Data mining on dWorks/SL Robinson Q3 • 43 Developer design workshops Schuster/Gilbert Q2 • Showcase how to switch to IBM Cloud in 1-2 days Tafuri Q2 • Free BlueMix trials for 20K Bluemix apps, Robinson Q2 • Migrate the Top 100 Ruby and Mobile apps from Heroku to Bluemix, (F2F & 2 months of credit) Voglino Q3

  7. Power 8 Developer Toolkit for April with Softlayer The IBM SDK for PowerLinux provides you with: An all-in-one solution for developing software on PowerLinux servers. Integration of important Linux and IBM tools into a single GUI environment, Allows you to use the Eclipse IDE directly on the Power Systems server or in x86_64 client for remote Software included IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux Version 6.0 integration; IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux Version 7.0 integration ;IBM SDK for PowerLinux, Version 1.4.0 Feedback Directed Program Restructuring (FDPR), Version 5.6.2-3 Pthread Monitoring tool for PowerLinux (pthread-mon), Version 0.5.10-1 ; IBM SDK Java Technology Edition Version 6 Supported Linux distributions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ; Fedora 18 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 IBM Seed Cloud Innovation with VCs and Startups through the SoftLayer Catalyst Program VC influencer forum; Showcase of >1300 Softlayer Catalyst Program startups Catalyst: hosted infrastructure, mentorship, exposure through marketing IBM provides an ecosystem of partners to the startups to leverage their technology EcoD engagement for outreach, skills, success IBM Confidential 7

  8. Building an Ecosystem is a Team Sport: Projects in Process IBM Confidential 8

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