IBM joined the OpenStack Foundation as a big-time Platinum sponsor last April. Since that time many have wondered when it would talk up its own plans to put its public and private cloud projects on the OpenStack open-source cloud platform. Well, that time has come at this week’s IBM Pulse conference on Monday.
While it’s hardly surprising that IBM woud make use of all these open source goodies it’s been working with, the news is, as All Things Digital reports, a big deal. In theory this means big cloud buyers will be able ot mix and match cloud workloads among and between various OpenStack providers including IBM competitor Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, Red Hat and others.
All of these players have a strong vested interest in keeping those business workloads from going to either Amazon Web Services the leader in public cloud or to VMware which is trying to parlay its in-house server virtualization dominance in the cloud.
Details about timing and delivery are scant but I’ll update this post as I’m able later today.
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