IBM is collaborating with ARM to deliver the first unified chip for IoT Platform

IBM is collaborating with ARM to deliver the first unified chip to cloud, enterprise class IoT platform

On September 3, IBM made several announcements that continue to differentiate IBM in the IoT market as the only vendor who can help companies transform their industries with new services,
offerings and sources of revenue.

    IBM is collaborating with ARM to deliver the first unified chip to cloud, enterprise class IoT platform.  This will allow companies of any size to transform their businesses with
    embedded smart and connected technologies.
    The first in a series of cloud-based, industry-specific IoT services, IoT for Electronics, will enable electronics manufacturers to gather data from individual sensors for real-time analysis.
    Expanded IBM IoT Foundation offerings with specific solutions for Device Management, Information Management, and Analytics.

Market response has been extremely positive.

Analysts Response:


    Al Velosa, Gartner – “Like the platform, especially with the electronics solution. I believe we will see massive transformation in the IoT if the electronics solution talks with another solution, say automotive. This becomes the ‘black box’ allowing the various industries to talk to each other."

    Charles King, PundIT - "This is excellent news for IBM, though I can think of some competitors who won't be too thrilled."

    Dima Tokar, MachNation - "This is an exciting announcement! There's a lot of mutual benefit that is likely to come out of this IBM/ARM partnership - both companies are key players in IoT, with different strengths."

    Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata - "This is interesting. The IoT space has a lot of different players, coming at the market from different angles, and I keep telling the ones in PLM that they need to pay attention to IBM. Something like this will make them sit up and take notice."

Media Amplification:


    There are plenty of clouds that want to store your connected data, but IBM is making the case that it has everything developers need in one reputable cloud. IoT Foundations has the IBM brand, new capabilities announced Thursday to handle data analytics (it uses a variation of the Spark real-time data processing standard) and device management capabilities. – Fortune

    IBM says that it doesn’t have an agenda for people's data, and that it's providing tools to protect data. Also part of today's announcement is the security portion of IBM's IoT expansion. In the case of consumer products, "you want to anonymize the individual," says O'Connor. "And we have capabilities to do that." Today's IBM and ARM deal is just one of many IoT collaborations likely to pop up in the near future. As more and more Internet-connected devices fill homes and businesses, the next big question is: What do we do with all that data? – Fast Company

    IBM has scored a sweet new partnership with ARM, the company best known for designing the chips that power our smartphones and tablets. This deal will let IBM's cloud watch and analyze data from billions of devices on the internet.  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, as its old markets whither and decline underneath it. – Business Insider

    [IBM is] responding to the growing needs of clients in multiple industries to manage devices, demonstrate risk assurance and run data analytics on them. And going forward, the more than 1 billion ARM chips that ship every quarter to come will connect automatically to IBM's Internet of Things platform. – The Huffington Post



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