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IBM Academic Initiative for Cloud Offer

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Announcing the IBM Academic Initiative for Cloud

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Faculty guides and related courseware options www.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/cloud_paas Faculty Guides IBM Bluemix Big Data on Bluemix NoSQL DBaaS with IBM Bluemix Watson Services DevOps Services Internet of Things Coming soon: Updated IBM MobileFirst

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New courseware previews on YouTube http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/NGPI

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“As a professor, I am delighted to see not just innovative projects coming out of this academic alliance but the entrepreneurial thinking in students which was evident by some cool solutions developed using Bluemix.” Ranjan, Rakesh, Lecturer AY-A, Computer Engineering, San Jose State University

“I am using Bluemix DevOps Services and Bluemix in my new Agile Development class to help students collaborate on group assignments and get familiar with online collaboration practices using the latest tools used in the industry, without the hassle and cost of setting up servers." Alan Kan, Lecturer, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand

“ IBM and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) pressed students to formulate innovative solutions to civic challenges. Integrating the hacking experience with new technologies and an understanding of infrastructure and society really brings about new solutions with big data." Marianne Thellersen, executive vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship at DTU

Professors already using IBM Cloud are excited by the results

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Become Academic Initiative Member

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Register for the Bluemix Trial

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Submit a request form for IBM Academic Initiative for Cloud ibm.biz/aiforcloud

Start today with three simple steps

Additional Resources

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Introduction to the IBM Academic Initiative for Cloud and Bluemix http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/NG1L (includes overview of the process to nominate your course) Related courseware introductions, see our IBM Academic Initiative YouTube Channel http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/NGPI

Get started with the IBM Academic Initiative for Cloud

Become a Academic Initiative member

Register for the Bluemix trial

Nominate your course for the Academic

Initiative for Cloud offer

Submit approved promotion code

Explore Courseware and resources

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STEP 1: Join the Academic Initiative You will be prompted to create an IBM ID.

STEP 2: Sign up for the Bluemix trial Already have a trial account? Proceed to step 3.

STEP 3: Nominate your course. Click on 'Sign in to Academic Initiative' button in Faculty section; Sign in with your IBM ID created in Step 1.

STEP 4 : Enter promo code by signing into your Bluemix trial account ID used in Step 2.

STEP 5 : Explore the courseware assets and faculty guides provided on the Platform as a Service teaching topic page on our website.

Step 1: Join and/or review the IBM Academic Initiative www.ibm.com/academicinitiative (see membership section)

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Step 2: Register for the Bluemix Trial ibm.biz/bluemixaicloudoffer

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Step 3: Nominate your course Direct link for Academic Initiative for Cloud: https://ibm.biz/aiforcloud Direct link to the nomination form: https://ibm.biz/aiforcloudform

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Step 4: Enter promo code by logging into your Bluemix trial account ID ibm.com/bluemix 1.Log in: top right

2.Sign in: Sign in with your IBM ID created in Step 1.

3. Access account information: Click on icon on the right

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Step 4: Continued - Enter your promo code Each faculty and student will receive a unique promo code.

Once you enter your promotional code, your dashboard reflect your benefit levels.

Dashboard

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Step 5: Explore resources and courseware options http://www-304.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/cloud_paas