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- 2. It is an IBM cloud start-up acquisition and a software product, which is primarily delivered as a cloud-based service. It is an open source non-relational, distributed database service of the same name that requires zero-configuration.
- 3. IBM's artificially intelligent computer system Watson was named after this person.
- 4. IBM is a Platinum sponsor of this foundation and has committed over 10% of this foundation's total code contributions by 90 active IBM developers.
- 5. The IBM acquisition that happened in 2013. This acquisition enabled strengthening IBM’s leadership position in cloud computing and help speed business adoption of public and private cloud solutions.
- 6. This IBM brand includes infrastructure as a service, software as a service and platform as a service offered through public, private and hybrid cloud delivery models.
- 7. This IBM initiative has helped launch more than 500 new businesses in areas of green energy, health care and transportation.
- 9. It provides cloud solutions and technology options for solving Federal agencies' mission challenges. The objective is to support Federal government clients and industry to innovate, educate, collaborate, solve, demonstrate and integrate.
- 12. A software methodology that integrates application development and IT operations.
- 13. What did Virginia Marie Rometty join IBM as?
- 15. IBM improved the design and functionality of this portal to reduce the time and complexity in accessing benefits. Improvements include simplified navigation, enhanced search, improved content quality as well as enabling social engagement, providing about an additional 25,000 hours of business partner productivity.
- 17. A council that works for the development of open, vendor-neutral IT standards and certifications that IBM is a member of. IBM contributed the Cloud Computing Reference Architecture in February 2011 to this council as the basis of an industry-wide cloud architecture.
- 18. This is a group of clients, partners, academics, startups, developers and influencers collaborating to fuel innovation and drive success. This move communicates IBM’s commitment to accelerating cloud adoption, and these new centers support an even more aggressive reach to new clients and new markets.
- 19. It is a cloud platform as a service, supports several programming languages and services as well as integrated DevOps to build, run, deploy and manage applications on the cloud.
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- 1. IBM's biggest cloud competitor.
- 2. One large component of the IBM Cloud strategy is SaaS IBM Cast Iron Cloud, a cloud integration appliance that emerged following IBM's acquisition of this company in 2010.
- 8. In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as "the cloud") is used as a metaphor for __?
- 10. The current Senior Vice President of IBM cloud.
- 11. A technology that builds clustering capabilities into the AIX operating system. This built-in clustering support provides commands and programming APIs to create a cluster from a group of AIX instances. It provides kernel-based heartbeat, monitoring, and event infrastructure.
- 14. The Premier Cloud & Mobile Conference held every year.
- 16. A cloud computing environment that consists of multiple public and private resources. In this cloud environment, external services are leveraged to extend or supplement an internal cloud.