IBM adds analytics, data warehousing tools to Bluemix

IBM has announced a new set of services for its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) ‘Bluemix’ that enable developers to infuse new analytics capabilities into cloud-based applications. The new IBM Cloud tools include IBM Streaming Analytics and dashDB. The IBM Streaming Analytics service is now in open beta; providing capability to instantaneously analyze data, scaling to thousands of sources, on the cloud. [caption id=“attachment_9870” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Reuters[/caption] “Streaming Analytics service enables an easier and more efficient way to visualise data. The service is completely scalable; dynamically building out the infrastructure as needed, giving developers time to focus on building important business logic and analytics,” the IT giant said. In addition, IBM dashDB is a generally available scalable cloud data warehouse service that enables information management, analytics and business intelligence operations in the cloud. IBM has also updated dashDB with MPP (massively parallel processing) capabilities to enable faster query processing and overall scalability. With Oracle and Netezza compatibility, dashDB MPP easily connects with existing database investments to reach new performance heights built on massively parallel processing cluster architecture. With built-in Netezza analytics libraries, and integration with Watson Analytics, R, Cognos and third party BI toolsets including Looker, Aginity Workbench and Tableau, dashDB can integrate with Twitter data and Open Data, and supports data preparation with DataWorks. IBM launched Bluemix via a $1 billion investment in 2014, rapidly becoming the largest Cloud Foundry deployment in the world, and was recently shown to be growing 10-times faster than the overall PaaS market by research firm ESG.