IBM BlueMix a daunting combo of DevOps and IaaS

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

IBM has trotted out a new concept it calls BlueMix, a combination of DevOps and Infrastructure as a Service, but its practical application lies far in the future. In theory, BlueMix could move cloud computing forward by uniting agile application development with the underlying infrastructure once and for all. It combines application services with a software-defined, programmable and automated underlying infrastructure that would eventually use analytics, rather than human input, to provision resources. It would all be glued together with application program interfaces (APIs), and all delivered by IBM, of course.

But even IBM’s CTO acknowledged the concept’s complexity, saying it’s not intended for every application. "Note that I didn’t say it was easy; it’s possible," said Danny Sabbah, IBM CTO and general manager of its next-generation platform group, during a keynote at Cloud Computing Expo here this week. BlueMix is in private beta under IBM’s jStart client engagement group for emerging technologies. There will be a SoftLayer region devoted to the technology, Sabbah said…

Despite IBM’s public commitment to OpenStack, BlueMix does not support OpenStack yet. Sabbah was quick to point out under questioning from the audience that IBM intends to continue with OpenStack and to work with other vendors on interoperability between OpenStack-based IaaS offerings…

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