ARMONK, N.Y. and
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
InterConnect 2015 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and CSC (NYSE:
CSC) today announced that they are building on their long-standing
strategic alliance by extending IBM's digital innovation platform,
Bluemix, to CSC's strong developer ecosystem to help global
customers accelerate their transition to the cloud and modernize
their applications. CSC and IBM are partnering together
through the CSC IBM Center of Excellence to bring global,
end-to-end service capabilities that give clients greater choice,
agility, flexibility and cost savings.
Enterprise clients increasingly are adopting as-a-service-based
platforms like Bluemix to speed development of cloud-based
applications. Using an open environment based on cloud
infrastructure from SoftLayer, Bluemix helps both born-on-the-web
and enterprise developers build cloud applications with development
tools from IBM and its partner ecosystem, cutting deployment time
from months to minutes.
By some estimates, the community of developers will triple over
the next four to five years, resulting in a 10-fold increase in the
number of new cloud-based solutions. Partnering with IBM to offer
Bluemix, CSC can help clients transition faster to their choice of
public and private clouds while modernizing their applications to
drive business innovation. CSC offers hybrid cloud solutions
including IBM SoftLayer, which can be run in numerous
configurations to meet customers' security, data, performance and
compliance needs based on the application.
As part of the agreement announced today, IBM will team with CSC
to provide joint clients with enablement sessions guiding
developers on how to use Bluemix to build cloud-native and
cloud-enabled applications. With flexible deployment models,
CSC's clients will be able to automate many of the manual tasks
associated with app development to build hybrid cloud solutions
across public, private and on-premises infrastructure faster.
"By leveraging Bluemix, we're creating exciting new
opportunities for our customers and developer ecosystem while
satisfying the growing demand among clients who are accelerating
their move to next-generation cloud solutions," said Jim Smith,
executive vice president & general manager, CSC Global Business
Services. "CSC's customers will be able to more easily and quickly
deliver business value in building, deploying, and managing their
mobile and cloud applications while reducing the total cost of
application management."
In addition, CSC will elect for select joint clients shared with
IBM to attend IBM's growing network of Bluemix Garages – physical
locations where IBM teams with local accelerators to deliver
cutting-edge tools, consulting resources and face-to-face
connections with other entrepreneurs, developers and
mentors.
Through the Bluemix Garage network – which was initially
launched in San Francisco in 2014 before expanding to London in November
2014 – CSC's clients will have the opportunity to
collaborate with IBM and developers from companies of all sizes
using agile methods. As a result, joint clients will be exposed to
a variety of events, technical talks and services from emerging
startups that will help spur innovation and drive growth.
Today's announcement builds on IBM's existing alliance with CSC
to offer clients a broad set of cloud solutions – including
mobility, digital and big data & analytics services – that
help them increase operational agility, choice, flexibility, and
cost-savings.
"It's been less than a year since Bluemix – a fundamental tenant
of IBM's vision and transformation to a cloud-first innovator –
became a reality. Yet the growth of the platform and its ecosystem,
including client adoption around the world, the number of partners
signing on, and the breadth of services we've been able to make
available has been phenomenal," said Steve
Robinson, general manager of IBM Cloud Platform Services.
"The expansion of our partnership with CSC will not only accelerate
the adoption of Bluemix across new global regions but also spur
amazing growth and movement to cloud across the entire tech
industry."
For more on the CSC – IBM alliance, go to:
http://www.csc.com/global_alliances/alliances/32238-ibm.
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in open enterprise cloud enabling secure
data and infrastructure integration in the cloud. For more
information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit
http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on
our blog at www.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation
#ibmcloud.
About CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is a
global leader of next-generation information technology (IT)
services and solutions. The Company's mission is to enable superior
returns on our clients' technology investments through
best-in-class industry solutions, domain expertise and global
scale. CSC has approximately 72,000 employees and reported
revenue of $12.6 billion for the 12
months ended January 2, 2015.
For more information, visit the company's website at
www.csc.com.
IBM Contact:
Nicholas
Smith, External Relations, 978 869 0870, nssmith@us.ibm.com
CSC Contacts:
Richard
Adamonis, Corporate Media Relations, 862-228-3481,
Radamonis@csc.com
George Price, Investor Relations,
703-641-3000, investorrelations@csc.com
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