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IBM Expands Bluemix OpenWhisk to Help Developers Quickly Connect Data to Serverless AppsARMONK, N.Y., April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has added new capabilities to Bluemix OpenWhisk, one of the leading open serverless computing platforms, to help developers more simply and securely connect event-driven programming into outside data streams. This expansion of OpenWhisk allows developers to expose serverless actions as secure and controlled APIs on the cloud, making it easier and quicker to build IoT and cognitive solutions. This is enabled by a new API Gateway on Bluemix OpenWhisk, which acts as gatekeeper between an external source – such as an uploaded image – and a corresponding OpenWhisk action – such as Watson Visual Recognition tagging that image. Traditionally, developers that use serverless often must configure and secure external endpoints manually. The latest evolution of IBM's serverless offering does this for developers automatically, helping them to more easily embed cognitive intelligence, cloud data services, and IoT sensor data within apps. OpenWhisk's expanded user experience also tracks and analyzes usage data for each serverless action invoked, helping teams to better understand when and why different cloud services are used. These advancements point to IBM's continued commitment to providing choice and flexibility to developers around how they pull in the outside tools and data they need to create apps. "We've been steadily building OpenWhisk to give developers a truly open serverless platform, which increases their ability to build and use transformative services such as cognitive and IoT," said Jason McGee, VP and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform. "Today's news further readies OpenWhisk for the enterprise, making it easier to use more securely and in concert with outside code, data and systems." To date, OpenWhisk adoption has accelerated across a range of startups building serverless innovations, which tap into cognitive, Internet of Things and data services to help transform industries.
OpenWhisk offers one of the broadest ranges of connections into unique services such as Watson APIs and the Watson IoT Platform, as well as an expanding ecosystem of partner tools, such as Kong's open API connector and PubNub's data stream network for real-time applications. Since the general availability of OpenWhisk in late 2016, IBM has continued to expand the user experience of serverless computing, broadening its reach to multiple industries. This includes:
Bluemix has grown rapidly to become one of the largest open, public cloud deployments in the world. Built on open source technologies, it features over 150 advanced technologies and services, including cognitive intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things tools, security and DevOps. To get started with IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk, visit http://ibm.biz/bluemixopenwhisk_getstarted. For an overview of IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk, visit http://ibm.biz/bluemixopenwhisk_overview. For more information on IBM Cloud, visit http://ibm.biz/cloudoverview. For more information around the open community building OpenWhisk technology, visit http://openwhisk.org/. Contact: Erin Lehr, [email protected] To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-expands-bluemix-openwhisk-to-help-developers-quickly-connect-data-to-serverless-apps-300447107.html SOURCE IBM |