IBM invests in cloud, IoT solutions

It is also building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.

Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Analytics, said last week that IBM will enable clients and industry partners to apply IoT data to build solutions based on an open platform. 

This is a major focus of investment for IBM because it is a rich and broad-based opportunity where innovation matters.

IBM estimates that 90 per cent of all data generated by devices such as smartphones, tablets, connected vehicles and appliances is never analysed or acted on. 

As much as 60 per cent of these data begins to lose value within milliseconds of being generated.

IBM will build on that expertise to help clients and partners integrate data from an unprecedented number of IoT and traditional sources. These resources will be made available on an open platform to provide manufacturers the ability to design and produce a new generation of connected devices that are better optimised for the IoT, and to help business leaders across industries create systems that better fuse enterprise and IoT data to inform decision-making. 

IBM’s offers include IBM IoT Cloud Open Platform for Industries and IoT solutions. 

The platform and solution will provide new analytics services that clients, partners and IBM will use to design and deliver vertical industry. 

IBM also offers IBM Bluemix IoT Zone and IBM IoT Ecosystem.

IBM Bluemix IoT Zone is a new IoT service and a part of IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service. 

It will enable developers to easily integrate IoT data into cloud-based development and deployment of IoT apps.

IBM IoT Ecosystem is the expansion of its ecosystem of IoT partners from silicon and device manufacturers to industry-oriented solution providers.