IBM stirs Spark-as-a-service into IBM Bluemix

Apache Spark is now available as a service on the IBM Bluemix cloud platform. At IBM Insight 2015 in Las Vegas Monday afternoon, Big Blue also announced that it has redesigned more than 15 core analytics and commerce solutions with Spark."It's been an incredible success since we put this in beta back in June," Rob Thomas, vice president of Product Development at IBM Analytics, says of IBM Analytics on Apache Spark, the new Spark-as-a-service offering. "We've had more than 5,000 developers coming