IBM inks Bluemix cloud deal with Capgemini's Sogeti

IBM has announced its Bluemix cloud deal with Sogeti, a subsidiary of Capgemini Group. As part of the deal, Sogeti will offer IBM’s cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Bluemix, to developers and clients across 15 countries worldwide. Bluemix, built on Cloud Foundry, will help Sogeti build hybrid cloud applications across public, private and on-premise infrastructure faster, according to the company. [caption id=“attachment_9868” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Reuters[/caption] In addition to opening access to Bluemix for its own developers, Sogeti will use it to power existing end-user solutions for commerce, the internet of things (IoT) and data analytics for clients in retail, healthcare, transportation, and energy and utilities. Sogeti, using its smartEngine gateway, has already built a solution with IBM Bluemix for managing smarter buildings. By connecting sensors that use different protocols and data formats on Bluemix, Sogeti can provide clients with insights on the performance of their heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, lighting and other energy-producing processes. Sogeti will use the same combination of its smartEngine and IBM’s Internet of Things service on Bluemix to provide insights on data for clients in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, agriculture, utilities management and more. “As cloud continues to transform how we collaborate and work with technology, many of our clients are looking to build more and more of their apps and systems with cloud,” said Andreas Sjöström, VP and global head of Digital at Sogeti. “However, many are still hesitating to make such a transition, due to requirements around data privacy, security and performance in the cloud. With Bluemix Dedicated, we are able to help address these concerns by offering dedicated servers and cloud data centres, while still offering the highly valuable benefits of a cloud infrastructure, such as accelerated business speed, collaboration and visibility.” IBM total cloud revenue — covering public, private and hybrid engagements — was $7.7 billion over the previous 12 months at the end of March 2015; it grew more than 60 percent in first quarter 2015. IBM’s cloud delivered as a service business, a subset of the total, includes Softlayer’s infrastructure offerings.