Bluemix

Bluemix was IBM's cloud platform introduced in 2014 as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and cloud services platform designed to help developers build, deploy, and scale applications in the cloud. It combined a Cloud Foundry-based runtime with a catalog of IBM and partner services, including databases, analytics, messaging, and cognitive services.

The platform ran on IBM's cloud infrastructure and provided runtimes for several programming languages (such as Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Go) through buildpacks, along with a marketplace of services like Cloudant, DB2, Watson cognitive services, IoT, and security features. It offered a web console, a command-line interface, REST APIs, and tools to support continuous delivery and application governance.

In 2016 IBM announced that Bluemix would be renamed IBM Cloud; the Bluemix branding was gradually retired, with services continuing under the IBM Cloud umbrella. The change reflected IBM's broader strategy to unify its cloud offerings under a single brand.

Bluemix played a role in popularizing Cloud Foundry-based PaaS at IBM and contributed to the expansion of IBM's cloud service catalog, particularly in analytics, cognitive services, and enterprise-ready runtimes.