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Using Bluemix as the IoT platform for our clients
September 11, 2017

Using Bluemix as the IoT platform for our clients

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

We are an IBM Bluemix implementation partner. We use our platform for proofs of concept, demos, and training, etc. So we are in the business for providing Bluemix solutioins for others, there are no business problems which Bluemix addressess internally at the moment or in the future, if you are not counting the license sales.
  • Rapid implementation for IoT platform
  • Rapid implementation of a micro service environment
  • Deep learning facilities available in the value stream
  • Surprisingly complex to implement some features, like port forwarding within the PaaS architecture without implementing IaaS layer features.
  • Difficult to assess at this point.
We were looking for a platform to support rapid IoT implementations for our clients. We compared Oracle cloud, Azure, AWS and Bluemix. While the differences were not major, and all had their strengths, we found that the management, provisioning and interfacing of IoT end points was most efficient in Bluemix.
It's good for a quick PoC for an IoT setup with hundreds/thousands of sensor points that need to be provisioned. It is also good for building full stack web architectures with micro services and mobile front ends etc. Not very well suited in current state for complex back end solutions requiring network operations/analysis in the core service built.