<p>Adam Gunther, Program Director of Cloud Offerings with IBM, accepted John Furrier and Dave Vellante's invitation to appear in theCUBE, where they shared with the viewers the origin of BlueMix, the big news at the IBM Pulse 2014 Conference and the business side of cloud.</p><p>Furrier began by reiterating that "Cloud equals growth" and noted that about 70 percent of the attendees of the current IBM Pulse event are first-timers. "You are attracting some new talent to the show," he said, mentioning the parallel Cloud Enabled Technologies and DevOps stream, "a hackathon meets party, with no strings attached," a sort of a foray into the Bear Hug community.</p><p>Picking up on the IBM forecast of $7 billion dollars by 2015 in cloud revenue, Furrier asked Gunther to share the vision behind cloud operations and cloud offerings: "Give us the scoop on the infrastructure, scale and the tooling."</p><p>"It comes from a simple starting point: developers are where innovation happens," Gunther started. "It happens with a developer, sitting behind a desk somewhere, having his coffee and coming up with an idea. When you have a small idea like that, how do you iterate and turn it into business value?"</p><p><a href="http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/02/27/developers-are-where-innovation-happens-ibmpulse/">Keep reading...</a></p>