ARMONK, N.Y., May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced an expanded suite of OpenStack services that allow
customers to integrate applications and data across hybrid clouds
including public, dedicated and local cloud environments without
the fear of vendor lock-in or costly customization.
The new IBM Cloud OpenStack Services enable clients and
developers to build applications that deliver security and
scalability to meet fluctuating business demands in a public cloud.
This includes spikes in usage and big data requirements. Combined
with IBM's existing offerings, clients and developers now have
access to the broadest set of OpenStack services.
Through the IBM Cloud OpenStack Services, developers and clients
will be able to launch applications on local, on-premises
installations and now on public clouds hosted on the SoftLayer
infrastructure. This can all be done without changing code or
configurations. As a result, developers can now build and test an
application in a public cloud and use the interoperability of
OpenStack to seamlessly deploy that same application and data
across hybrid clouds including public, dedicated and local.
"Open technologies are paving the way for broader cloud adoption
and enabling companies like Virdata to confidently deploy clouds
without the fear of vendor lock-in," said Martin Braem, Virdata Lead for DevOps, Support
and Professional Services. "IBM Cloud OpenStack Services gives us
the ability to easily move OpenStack workloads across hybrid
clouds."
With cloud adoption on the rise, major business complexities are
being formed as hundreds of clouds are created without the means to
integrate applications and access data located in multiple
locations, including their traditional data centers.
To address this, IBM has 500 developers dedicated to working on
open cloud projects to bring new cloud innovations to market.
Today, IBM is the only cloud provider to combine OpenStack for
hybrid clouds including public, dedicated and local.
The new public cloud services that are in beta today bring new
capabilities to better serve developers and our clients with the
following:
- Expanding Access to Public Cloud: By extending its
OpenStack services to the public cloud, IBM will provide a complete
portfolio of hybrid OpenStack services that span across public,
dedicated and local clouds. This will allow companies to deploy and
integrate application environments in minutes versus days or weeks
traditionally experienced by clients.
- Speed and Security: IBM Cloud OpenStack Services will
enable clients to quickly deploy an integrated and highly-secure
cloud that is built on a strong foundation of security. This will
provide companies with the means to monitor their cloud environment
and security controls to assist businesses run workloads on trusted
hardware.
- Network of Data Centers: Developers will be able to
quickly set up and scale applications and deliver them to any
OpenStack Powered Platform. As part of this, IBM will manage the
OpenStack environment and the infrastructure, hosted in IBM's
global cloud data centers. This will allow developers and clients
to better manage workloads including hosted enterprise
applications, analytics, and web and mobile applications.
Today's announcement reinforces IBM's commitment to open cloud
services, where these offerings can be consumed though Bluemix and
SoftLayer.
Through these IBM OpenStack Services that users can experience
here, companies will be able to launch applications on local,
on-premises installations, and on public, dedicated and local
clouds hosted on the IBM Cloud infrastructure.
"As a top contributor to OpenStack, IBM firmly believes that an
open cloud architecture translates into significant cost savings
for our clients and will rapidly expand the cloud marketplace,"
said IBM Vice President of Cloud Architecture and Technology Dr.
Angel Diaz. "By delivering a
complete portfolio of OpenStack services to the market, we are
enabling our clients with what they need to quickly move
applications and data across multiple cloud environments without
fear of getting locked into a single cloud environment."
Today's announcement builds on IBM's on going leadership within
the OpenStack community. In fact, for Kilo, OpenStack's latest
release, IBM:
- Had hundreds of developers participate in 11,676 code
reviews
- Implemented 68 blueprints
- Fixed 520 bugs for a total of 232,382 lines of code
One of IBM's most important contributions to OpenStack is
enabling clients to continue to benefit from the interoperability
of OpenStack environments through our leadership in the development
of the compliance test tool – RefStack-client.
Extending Partner and Client Value Through OpenStack
Services
As IBM extends OpenStack Services, it is working with SAP to deploy
enterprise solutions in the cloud more quickly with economies of
scale, all while realizing the benefits of an open cloud platform.
This is another example of IBM and SAP extending their partnership
in the cloud, bringing the enterprise to OpenStack.
IBM total cloud revenue – covering public, private and hybrid
engagements – was $7.7 billion over
the previous 12 months at the end of March
2015; it grew more than 60 percent in first quarter 2015.
IBM's cloud delivered as a service business, a subset of the total,
includes IaaS.
For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit
http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on
our blog at www.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation
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Scott
Cook
IBM Media Relations
Phone: 312-669-4743
Email: scotty@us.ibm.com
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