IBM Opens New York Bluemix Garage for Cloud Blockchain Application Development

By June 28, 2016Bitcoin Business

IBM on Tuesday announced a new Bluemix Garage in New York, located at Galvanize’s newly launched New York campus in SoHo. This enables developers and enterprises to work with IBM Blockchain code in the cloud. As with IBM’s other garages in San Francisco, London, Nice and Toronto, the New York Garage will invite startups and enterprises to collaborate in a creative environment outside of their traditional office setting.

IBM is ramping up its efforts to become one of the top players in the emerging sector of distributed ledger technology. The company is a key member of Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort started in December to establish, build and sustain an open source non-Bitcoin blockchain. In February, Bitcoin Magazine reported that IBM was deploying a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) for developers and making tens of thousands of lines of code available to the Hyperledger Project. In April, IBM announced new cloud services based on the company’s Hyperledger code and IBM’s cloud platform, Bluemix.

Bluemix, on which more than 120,000 apps are launched every month, is becoming one of the largest open, public cloud deployments in the world. Based in open standards, it features more than 140 tools and services spanning categories of big data, mobile, Watson, analytics, integration, DevOps, security and the Internet of Things (IoT).

To promote its Bluemix cloud services for blockchain development, the company launched a “ Bluemix Garage for blockchain ” initiative to “deliver business solutions that work” by combining industry expertise with blockchain technology along with proven development methodologies such as Design Thinking and Agile Development. IBM intends to deploy Bluemix garages in major cities worldwide as hubs where developers, product managers and designers can come together to build on Bluemix. The IBM garages will be open to local companies to visit, ask questions to […]

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