Cloud Services Report: IBM Bluemix Features, Comparison and Analysis

This report delves into the features of IBM Bluemix, a cloud platform as a service (PaaS), and provides a comparative analysis against other leading PaaS providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, and Microsoft Azure. The report begins with an introduction to cloud-based architecture and its benefits, followed by a detailed examination of Bluemix's functionalities, such as its support for various programming languages and its integration with DevOps tools. The comparison section highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each provider, focusing on aspects like service offerings, pricing, and target industries, with specific attention to how Bluemix caters to different business needs, including healthcare and SME's. The report also outlines the steps to implement IBM Bluemix and concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of selecting cloud services based on specific business requirements. The analysis includes discussions on the adoption of cloud services, the impact of IoT, and the role of cloud services in various sectors, providing a comprehensive overview of the cloud computing landscape.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
IBM Bluemix features................................................................................................................2
Comparison between Bluemix and other PaaS service providers..............................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Cloud-based architecture is a common architecture that is used for managing all the services
of the business of an organization. Besides, many firms have provided cloud-based services
to their clients to manage their services (Alley, 2018). Besides, most of the firms can take
competitive advantages from the cloud-based services. It will improve the accuracy and
security of the system as well. This report will analyse four companies that are using cloud-
based services. This report will discuss about the IBM Bluemix and its features. Besides, it
will provide a defence between the top four cloud architecture. This report will compare
Bluemix with other service providers, which are Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google,
Oracle, and Microsoft.
IBM Bluemix features
IBM has provided many innovations for business purposes. However, cloud-based services
have used for managing different types of processes. Besides, IBM Bluemix has used for
computer infrastructure mostly. However, there are many other benefits of the system
including network, security, storage, and many mobile (Balalaie, et al., 2016).
Source: (Jackson, 2015)
Besides, digital strategies have used for manging businesses in many firms. Thus, they have
required advance technologies, such as cloud-based services (Bhagat, 2012). Bluemix has
provided advance services based on the users demands as well. It is the best way to make
services more scalable for the users (Gupta, 2018).

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Source: (Jackson, 2015)
The organization will release software to run IBM's Bluemix platform offerings from inside
an organization's information facilities. IBM has provided different APIs for managing their
work in a proper manner (Chen & Zhao, 2012). It has also set up a new machine as a way to
allow companies to bundle their workloads in bins in order that they can be easily moved into
the cloud (Condon, 2016).
Comparison between Bluemix and other PaaS service
providers
IBM has created main good innovations for managing advance services in a firm. Bluemix
has provided a new experience for managing web services and application development. In
addition, IBM has designed better services for their clients. AWS has provided cloud services
for finance, communication, manufacturing and other services. However, Bluemix has
provided additional services that are specific for a client such as healthcare. In addition,
Google has provided media services including other services as well. Oracle has developed
applications for energy and utilization that are for specific purpose only.
Moreover, IBM has provided their services to SME’s that are based on the basic requirements
as well. However, it has provided services to government agencies as well. Most of the
clients have developed their business based on the Bluemix services.

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The company has provided free teach support that is basic need of a systems. However, other
vendors have changed for the technical support services. Besides, Bluemix has provided
better platform for developing applications and other web services, as it has required less cost
and time of implementation (Prokopp, 2014). Bluemix has provided support to manage
manufacturing processes as well (Jackson, 2015).
Moreover, the new API carrier, known as API and they are used for personal development as
well. Most of the systems have connected using centralized systems that is useful for
monitoring and controlling as well (Jansen, 2011).
Besides, IBM has supported new machines and new business processes including new
technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT). Most of the systems have connected with the
different services of company as well. IoT-based devices can connect with the cloud services
that can be helpful for data collection and management. It will improve the data analytics and
business intelligence as well (Kaufman, 2009).

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Source: (Jackson, 2015)
In addition, Bluemix has provide many applications for vendors that are helpful in
businesses. Cloud services are helpful in the management of client and vendors as well (Peng
& Gala, 2014). There are various government systems in the whole world that are using
Bluemix for managing their web services and data as well (King & Raja, 2012).
The organisation has signed a partnership with mang giant organizations to manage their
business and financial processes including their internal processes as well (King & Raja,
2012). IBM will release extra statistics centres to assist its worldwide cloud coverage, in
Sydney and in Montreal. However, other vendor has specific locations in the world as well
(Kshetri, 2013).
Source: (Jackson, 2015)

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IBM Bluemix is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) evolved with the aid of IBM. It helps
several programming languages and services in addition to integrated DevOps to construct,
run, install and manipulate programs on the cloud (Pearson, 2013). Bluemix has supported
many languages for development of applications. It is a better platform for improving the
knowledge about the system as well. (Zhou, et al., 2017). IBM also guarantees that the
statistics transfer will continue even at some stage in an outage or connectivity loss (Wu, et
al., 2013).
Source: (Condon, 2016)
Thus, cloud services must be used according to the requirements of a business (Verma,
2018). Furthermore, it is suitable for small and medium scale enterprise, as they have
required cloud services at low level because of their income and revenue as well. Thus, it is
better for initial services of cloud-based environment. Google has focused on the media and
other services because they are easier for the company to manage other processes.
Besides, large scale organization can use high level of applications including Watson and
other server services. It will be better for the clients as well. IoT based services are more
beneficial for a firm in the future as well.

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Thus, elements like ability suppliers, shipping lanes and expenses might all be ingested to
give the most foremost selection, without any manual cost-benefit evaluation (Mather, et al.,
2009). IBM factors out it ought to be relevant in a huge kind of industries, such as
production, utilities, finance, and retail (Takabi, et al., 2010).
Implementation of IBM Bluemix:
Step 1: Create your GitHub account
Step 2: Create your IBM Bluemix account

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Step 3: Deploy your Rest API package to GitHub
Step 4: Deploy your GitHub repository to IBM Bluemix
Step 5: Test the Rest API using PostMan

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IBM Bluemix has counted in the niche player including Oracle and Alibaba cloud.
Moreover, decimos making is easier with the help of the cloud surmises (Mahalle, et al.,

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2018). rather, a customer can embed it in applications the use of a relaxation API or use it
from the record’s technological know-how experience Notebooks (Svantesson & Clarke,
2010).
Lastly, IBM dash DB for Transactions is a fully-managed square database provider on IBMv
Bluemix. Moreover, there are many changes in the business process based on the cloud
migration. AWS has created a position in the market. However, there are some specificz
technology has adopted by the AWS using IBM as well. It offers excessive availability on
selected plans, in addition to pay-in keeping with-use units (Sen, 2014).

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Besides, Amazon has got first position in the adoption of cloud services. Cloud services can
be managed using all the services (Linthicum, 2016). IBM has increased their percentage of
adoption by 5%, which is a good number in the industry. Cloud services take huge amount
for adoption. Thus, firms have thought about the various features and conditions (Romansky,
2012).
Amazon web offerings (AWS) has been main the general public cloud marketplace since it
commenced services in 2006. consistent with Gartner, Amazon is the public cloud issuer,
preserving 47.8% percentage inside the IaaS marketplace in 2018.
The IBM cloud has provided 56 processors in VM that is good for processing. Moreover, it
provides support to many operating systems including Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS,