At its PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM announced its new Power Development Platform. The cloud development platform gives partners free access to IBM Power Systems for building and testing applications.
Big Blue also announced several changes to its partner program, including the creation of a new ecosystem called “Ready for Smarter Commerce,” which includes applications with validated cloud, mobile and social capabilities. “As the world is being transformed by cloud, mobile, social, big data and analytics, we need to enable our business partners to transform with it so they can take full advantages of the opportunities these changes bring,” said IBM senior VP Tom Rosamilia.
