IBM to adopt OpenStack as foundation of its cloud offerings

IBM Makes OpenStack The Cloud Platform To Beat – ReadWrite

Here is the IBM press release about their plans to use OpenStack:

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40519.wss

Also follow IBM Cloud on Twitter to see what they are up to (heh:):

https://mobile.twitter.com/ibmcloud

Interesting news, recent, seen via Twitter.

OpenStack (and its history) are interesting too:

http://www.openstack.org/

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack/

http://www.wired.com/insights/2012/06/nasa-openstack-amazon/

Parts of OpenStack, including the core, OpenStack Compute (Nova), are written in Python.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/openstack-2/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/citrix-cloudstack/

Google Compute Engine launched

Google Compute Engine

It is sort of an AWS competitor though there may be more (or less) to it than that (over time). It is an IaaS. I had recently blogged about the rumors that this may happen.

Long thread on Hacker News discussing pros and cons of Google  Compute Engine vs. competitors such as Amazon AWS/EC2:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4172922

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

Google may launch IaaS cloud service competing with Amazon and Microsoft

http://gigaom.com/2012/06/22/google-to-launch-amazon-microsoft-cloud-competitor-at-google-io-2012/

Interesting. I remember thinking, a while back, given Google's experience with scaling hardware, software and distributed systems, that they should do something like this, as a for-pay service, though I had used the term Technology as a Service to myself then, when thinking about it. Terms like PaaS and IaaS were barely in vogue back then (though SaaS was). Heh :)

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com