IBMImpact

IBM Impact: Be First
A discussion of best practices, technical education and roadmaps for business transformation.
   10 years ago
#IBMImpactIBM Impact Mobile FirstCloud and Mobile experts and thought leaders discuss the impact of the Mobile Cloud for IT
Bert Latamore
@pgillin Google is a founding member of OpenPower. Is it going to use Power servers in the Compute Engine? Will IBM license Watson to Google to run on Power?
John Furrier
#openpower is consistent with the open compute initiative although not directly; the trend is about this new hacker culture or maker movement with developers
Bert Latamore
@furrier I talked to a Master of the Mainframe contestant who mentioned that he was programming in Cobol for the contest.
Bert Latamore
Is AWS's lack of an in-house story a weakness as many companies build hybrid cloud environments? Paul Gillin thinks so.
Tim Crawford
In a word...Not today.
Bert Latamore
Scott Francis in #theCUBE sees hybrid as transition. He thinks IBM strategy of supporting customer investment and migration is strong.
Tim Crawford
IBM needs to demonstrate their ability to parlay SoftLayer for #cloud demand.
Bert Latamore
IBM needs to prove the value of SoftLayer & other add-on cloud services to enterprises to differentiate from AWS.
Tim Crawford
Key for IBM: Relevance and specific use-cases demonstrating new apps leveraging new tools.
Bert Latamore
What will IBM do to gain market momentum in the cloud?
Bert Latamore
BlueMix integrated with Worklight on SoftLayer.
Bert Latamore
Marie Weeks says less than have of enterprises have clearly stated mobile strategy.
John Furrier
Here is what the IBM Twitter community is talking about from CrowdChat social analytics https://www.crowdchat.net/59tp

Bert Latamore
Marie Weeks discusses mobile app design for enterprises.
John Furrier
it's all about #devops for IBM to win the developer over making it easy to deploy harder than it sounds
Bert Latamore
IBM itself says that where apps re developed determines where they will be run in production.