IBM is going cloud native and is telling its customers that cloud native is in their future too.
Such a statement might cause some old school IBM customers to break into a cold sweat, which is why IBM isn’t pushing “cloud native” on them just yet—certainly not as hard as they are pushing Watson and cognitive computing. Cloud native is work in progress, for both parties.
Bryson Koehler, CTO of IBM Watson and IBM Cloud said, “cloud native fundamentally is a philosophical approach, which is I’m going to run my applications and manage my business in the cloud, to leverage horizontal scalability that is provided to me by infrastructure as a service.”
It seems IBM is hedging its bets here, because what IBM is doing behind the scenes with infrastructure and platform services sounds very much like cloud native.In terms of microservices, IBM has released in beta the Microservice Builder, a set of tools that can help developers create microservices in Bluemix.
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