(Telecompaper) IBM said it has made a major commitment to ApacheSpark open source project. IBM plans to embed Spark into its Analytics and Commerce platforms, and to offer Spark as a service on IBM Cloud. IBM will also put more than 3,500 IBM researchers and developers to work on Spark-related projects, donate its BM SystemML machine learning technology to the Spark open source ecosystem, and educate more than one million data scientists and data engineers on Spark. This will be done through partnerships with AMPLab, DataCamp, MetiStream, Galvanize and Big Data University MOOC.