IBM has scored a new partnership with ARM, which will let IBM’s cloud watch and analyze data from billions of devices on the internet. ARM is the company best-known for designing the chips that power our smartphones and tablets.
The Internet of Things is the trend of adding chips and sensors to everyday items (from dishwashers to thermostats) and connecting them to the internet. Sensors will do everything from monitor the health of industrial equipment, to monitor your medical issues in a fitness device. It’s projected to be a $1.7 trillion market in five years, according to IDC. ARM is already a player in this market. It’s licensing about 1 billion-or so chips per quarter for Internet of Things devices, as part of a project called mBed. ARM is adding IBM’s cloud into the guts of the mBed system. That means that anyone using ARM chips for mBed IoT devices can easily hire IBM’s BlueMix cloud to store and analyze the data. IBM is also launching a special new cloud, IoT for Electronics, that will do all this analysis in real time. IBM is one of the few companies in the world with the cloud in place to do that.
This is another example of how IBM is using new partnerships with key and important players to fling itself into hot up-and-coming new markets as fast as it can……
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