OpenStack

Компания IBM объявила о намерении перевести все свои облачные сервисы и облачные продукты на открытую архитектуру, основанную на использовании свободной платформы OpenStack.

http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=36352

И не просто переводит свои сервисы, а изрядно вкладывается в разработку платформы

the new software, called IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator, gives clients greater flexibility by removing the need to develop specific interfaces for different cloud services. With the new software, companies can quickly combine and deploy various cloud services onto the cloud infrastructure by lining up the compute, storage and network resources with an easy-to-use graphical interface

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In addition, IBM also announced new versions of software that use open standards to help companies better monitor and control their enterprise cloud deployments. For example, IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Application Insight helps businesses monitor the real-time performance and availability of applications hosted on a cloud and being delivered via the Web, hosted on public cloud platforms and IBM SmartCloud

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IBM is applying its experience in supporting and validating open standards from Linux, Eclipse and Apache to cloud computing. Working with the IT community, IBM is helping to drive the open cloud world by:

Creating a 400-member strong Cloud Standards Customer Council that grew from about 50 members at launch;

Sponsoring OpenStack Foundation as a platinum and founding member and as one of the top code and design contributors to all OpenStack projects;

Driving related cloud standards, such as Open Service for Lifecycle Collaboration, Linked Data in the W3C and TOSCA in OASIS, to enhance cloud application portability;

Dedicating more than 500 developers on the open cloud projects and;

Working closely with the OpenStack Foundation, along with its 8,200+ members from 109 countries and 1,000 organizations.

IBM is one of the world’s largest private cloud vendors with more than 5,000 private cloud customers in 2012, which increased 100 percent year-over-year. IBM’s cloud portfolio, called SmartCloud, is based on a common code of interoperability, allowing clients to move between IBM’s private, hybrid and public cloud services.

IBM Orchestrator is expected to be available later this year. IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Application Insight is expected to be available in the second quarter of the year. The analytics beta programs are expected to be available by the end of March.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40519.wss?CT=ISM0056

http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/

На продаже сервисов и услуг поднимают такие деньжищи, что хватает на продавливание своих интересов в сообществах разработки открытого ПО. Тем более, что это дешевле чем делать все самому с нуля.

Понравилась им такая модель бизнеса, по всему видать.

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