IBM picks The Frontier in RTP for cloud ‘dojo’

Decades ago, The Frontier in Research Triangle Park was a typical 80s-era IBM building, with long, windowless hallways and small isolated offices.  Today, under Research Triangle Foundation ownership, a co-working space is replacing those narrow hallways and collaboration, not isolation, is being touted as the Frontier’s theme.  As of this week, however, its longtime tenant IBM is officially back, at least in a small, leased office on the first floor. But it’s definitely not your parent’s IBM.

 

“It’s behind a big glass wall,” says Tim Vanderham, a 17-year IBM veteran serving as vice president of development and engineering for IBM’s BlueMix cloud platform, referring to what’s being called the IBM Cloud Foundry Dojo in RTP. He says it’s part of IBM’s pledge to “evangelize” cloud technology, and it had its official grand opening this week.  The dojo is about enhancing cloud awareness as well as delivering code into the Cloud Foundry, “which then fundamentally becomes part of BlueMix as well.”…

Cloud Foundry is an open-source cloud computing platform with several partners, including IBM, Pivotal, HPE (Helwett Packard Enterprise) and others. And, while its partners have developed dojos like this to enhance and promote the platform, it’s a first for IBM (though four more customer-focused "BlueMix Garages” exist across the globe)…

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