Last month I was honored and thrilled to be a part of IBM InterConnect 2015 conference as a client speaker; a member of Global WebSphere Community (GWC); a co-leader of Chicago North-West Integration and Cloud Computing WebSphere User Group; and an IBM customer. I have written a review of InterConnect 2015 from z Systems Perspective for GWC and have a series of articles which are posted on WebSphere User Group website at http://websphereusergroup.org/cms/articlearchives/. This articles (part 2) covers: - Hybrid Cloud with z Systems - API Management and Secure Gateway service in Bluemix - Custom patterns for Linux on z Systems Utilize Chef - IBM Big Data Analytics and Hadoop for Linux on z Systems - IBM Big Data Analytics and Hadoop for Linux on z Systems - IBM MobileFirst (Worklight on zLinux)