To add: they recently announced an investment of $3bn over 4 years in the IoT division, which will probably be focused mostly on analytics & will somehow tie in

To add: they recently announced an investment of $3bn over 4 years in the IoT division, which will probably be focused mostly on analytics & will somehow tie in with Watson & Bluemix, which are the strongest pieces in their portfolio at the moment. [1] They also broke out an additional "Education" unit within the IoT business unit, ostensibly to compete with PTC Thingworx, and Intel+Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc. in the student/teacher/maker market. [2] [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibms-3-billion-investment-will-drive-iot-growth-2015-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibms-3-billion-investment... [2] https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47660.wss https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47660.wss