IBM Steadily Building Bluemix as Critical Part of Its Cloud Strategy
March 1, 2016
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
IBM celebrated the second anniversary of its Bluemix Platform as a Service with by releasing a long list of new features at the company’s IBM InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas last week. The new functionality includes a set of new Watson APIs available on the IBM Watson Developer Cloud on Bluemix. These include three APIs in beta evaluation mode, Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis and Visual Recognition.
In addition the company’s updated its existing Text to Speech (TTS) API with new emotional capabilities and re-released it to generally availability as Expressive TTS. Since its introduction as a preview at the IBM Pulse conference two years ago, Bluemix has grown significantly. Bluemix is more than a typical PaaS, which enables enterprise developers to build, run, and manage applications without the expense and complexity of maintaining the computing infrastructure typically associated with modern software development. Bluemix does all of that, but it also provides a broad catalog of services and adheres to IBM’s strict commitment to provide options for enterprises to run hybrid cloud environments…
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