LAS VEGAS, Feb. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM InterConnect 2016 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and GitHub, a software platform used by more than 12 million developers to collaborate, announced a strategic partnership to dramatically advance the development of next generation cloud applications for enterprise customers.
IBM and GitHub plan to deliver GitHub Enterprise as a dedicated service on Bluemix, IBM's Cloud Platform, to customers across private and hybrid cloud environments. By working with IBM Cloud, developers can expect to learn, code and work with GitHub's collaborative development tools in a private, environment with robust security capabilities.
With GitHub Enterprise, code collaboration, code reuse, and review are built into the development process, offering managed, collaborative coding for large-scale enterprise software development teams. As part of Bluemix, the solution will provide customers with Hybrid DevOps capabilities through the Bluemix Dedicated and Local managed delivery models.
As a result, customers can expect to have a unique opportunity to build software using GitHub Enterprise on Bluemix, allowing their developers to create end-to-end enterprise apps within IBM Cloud without having to worry about the overhead costs of infrastructure.
"Great software is no longer a nice-to-have in the enterprise, and developers expect to be able to build software quickly and collaboratively," said Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and CEO of GitHub. "By making GitHub Enterprise available on the IBM Cloud, even more companies will be able to tap into the power of social coding, and build the best software, faster."
Benefits of GitHub Enterprise on IBM Cloud are expected to include:
"Offering the first Github Enterprise service in a dedicated and local environment on IBM 's Cloud will fuel the rapidly growing population of enterprise developers as they build next generation cloud apps collaboratively and securely," said Bill Karpovich, general manager, IBM Cloud Platform. "They'll gain the benefits of an open platform, as well as the security of a private infrastructure for managing their development process."
About GitHub
With 31 million projects, GitHub is the leading developer community for code collaboration. Over 12 million developers use GitHub. For more information on GitHub and GitHub Enterprise, visit https://github.com/.
About IBM
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