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6 A Letter from the Chairman
Our Platform Is Cloud In a world being rewritten
in code, coders are the new builders, and
cloud is the platform on which they are building.
All of our IBM Watson units, along with the rest
of our growing portfolio of cognitive solutions,
are being built on a cloud platform.
The word “platform” is important. Much
more than simply a faster and cheaper way
to access IT, a cloud platform is a new model
of innovation, manufacturing and distribution.
Cloud platforms provide an open environment
for collaboration and rapid scaling. They expose
growing libraries of APIs from which partners
and third parties across a broad ecosystem can
create new, innovative solutions. And cloud
offers access to multiple data sets and relevant
expertise—not only about technology, but also
from business and societal domains.
The IBM Cloud is designed for this new era.
It is the overall platform on which we, our
clients and our ecosystem partners are building
a rapidly expanding array of solutions.
It encompasses multiple technology and
data platforms:
• IBM Bluemix, our platform-as-a-service for
developers, was created by IBMers using
Agile and Design Thinking approaches.
It has grown rapidly, ending the year onboard-
ing 15,000 developers a week. And with more
“ Hybrid is the fastest-
growing segment
of the cloud market,
and IBM is the global
leader in hybrid cloud
for the enterprise.”