Close
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Menu
Search
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Cloud
    • Cloud

    IBM Launches Bluemix Service for DevOps Alerts

    By
    Darryl K. Taft
    -
    December 28, 2015
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin
      IBM logo

      IBM recently launched its Alert Notification Service, a new service on IBM Cloud that enables DevOps teams to rapidly receive and respond to alerts about potential issues with their applications, before their users are affected.

      Available in beta on the company’s Bluemix platform as a service (PaaS), the IBM Alert Notification Service works with the real-time and historical network analytics of IBM Netcool Operations Insight. By forming a single, coherent view across networks and operations, this new service enables developers and operators to receive notifications when their attention is required. The notifications can be received via email, Short Message Service (SMS) or voice.

      Developers can use the REST API to integrate with this service to notify the right team. To help protect against downtime, the service can be configured for escalations to diminish the time needed to identify and respond to an alert.

      Moreover, to ensure teams never miss any actionable, crucial alerts, IBM Alert Notification Service is designed to allow teams to create customized notification policies, ensuring alerts are routed immediately to the right team members. Further raising the visibility of alerts, this service also enables users to opt to receive alerts via text or voicemail, in addition to email. The IBM Alert Notification Service also works with on-premise solutions for enterprises that want to deploy it across hybrid environments.

      “Because IBM Alert Notification is provided as a service, the required server infrastructure is installed and managed by IBM, reducing your time-to-value and offering low-maintenance ownership,” Dev Ambasna, business programs and social lead for IT Ops at IBM, wrote in a blog post.

      IBM launched Bluemix with a $1 billion investment in 2014, and the Bluemix catalog now includes more than 120 tools and services spanning categories of big data, mobile, Watson, analytics, integration, DevOps, security and the Internet of things (IoT).

      IBM has been busy adding to its portfolio of Bluemix services. Earlier this month, the company announced IBM Object Storage, an IBM Cloud service that enables developers to interactively compose and connect object storage into their apps.

      This service, which comes as a follow-on of IBM’s recent acquisition of Cleversafe, provides app developers with a scalable, API-accessible platform to store and retrieve unstructured data, as well as build apps around this content. Available in beta on Bluemix, Object Storage also enables developers to access this valuable data from external apps.

      IBM Object Storage is designed to make it faster, easier and more secure for developers to tap into and store growing volumes of unstructured data, including content such as images, documents and videos. It’s estimated that out of the 2.5 billion gigabytes of data that are created every day, 80 percent is unstructured content.

      As the volume of the world’s digital images, photos, sound files and more grows, so does the value of this unstructured data to developers building intelligent, useful and creative apps. But this bulky and hard-to-understand data not only presents a challenge to store efficiently, but to do so in a way in which app creators can easily tap into it and seamlessly build apps around the valuable intelligence unstructured data offers.

      IBM Object Storage, easily accessible on IBM Cloud, enables developers to compose and connect object-based storage into their apps—using a single API to retrieve it rapidly and securely from apps both inside and outside Bluemix, IBM said. This enables developers to build and scale their apps around this content, and in turn, create new ways to tap into its value.

      In November, IBM announced a new cloud-based service that enables developers to automatically translate cloud and mobile apps into nine different languages.

      The new service, IBM Globalization Pipeline, is now available in beta on IBM’s Bluemix PaaS. Big Blue said the Globalization Pipeline will help open up new global markets to companies without requiring them to rebuild or redeploy their applications.

      The beta version will support English as the base language as well as nine additional languages: French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.

      “Globalization Pipeline accommodates both the enterprise application team that may already be translating but want to adapt their processes to their new cloud development environment, and app developers new to translation who want to get started without a large investment in understanding translation processes, securing vendors or implementing new tools,” Lisa McCabe, IBM’s program director for Global Foundations Technology, wrote in a blog post.

      Also last month, IBM released a new cloud tool that eliminates the need for users to share personal information with apps.

      Big Blue’s new Identity Mixer is a tool to protect a consumer’s personally identifiable information. This technology also is accessible to developers on Bluemix.

      IBM officials said Identity Mixer is based on years of cryptography research, and is key to helping to reduce identity theft that results from sharing personal data on mobile and Web apps. Using algorithms, the tool enables developers to build apps that can authenticate users’ identities without collecting personal data, otherwise known as a “zero-knowledge proof.”

      Avatar
      Darryl K. Taft
      Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Android

      Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro: Durability for Tough...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 5, 2020 0
      Have you ever dropped your phone, winced and felt the pain as it hit the sidewalk? Either the screen splintered like a windshield being...
      Read more
      Cloud

      Why Data Security Will Face Even Harsher...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 1, 2020 0
      Who would know more about details of the hacking process than an actual former career hacker? And who wants to understand all they can...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      How Veritas Is Shining a Light Into...

      eWEEK EDITORS - September 25, 2020 0
      Protecting data has always been one of the most important tasks in all of IT, yet as more companies become data companies at the...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      How NVIDIA A100 Station Brings Data Center...

      Zeus Kerravala - November 18, 2020 0
      There’s little debate that graphics processor unit manufacturer NVIDIA is the de facto standard when it comes to providing silicon to power machine learning...
      Read more
      Apple

      Why iPhone 12 Pro Makes Sense for...

      Wayne Rash - November 26, 2020 0
      If you’ve been watching the Apple commercials for the past three weeks, you already know what the company thinks will happen if you buy...
      Read more
      eWeek


      Contact Us | About | Sitemap

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      Terms of Service | Privacy Notice | Advertise | California - Do Not Sell My Information

      © 2021 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×