IBM teams up with VMWare-EMC spinoff Pivotal in the further development of Cloud Foundry, the open source cloud-agnostic Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) kicked off by VMWare in 2011.
“Cloud Foundry's potential to transform business is vast, and steps like the one taken today help open the ecosystem up for greater client innovation,” the company says. “IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”
The IBM-Pivotal partnership already has a first result-- WebSphere Liberty Core, a lightweight version of the IBM WebSphere Application Server running on Cloud Foundry to enable less complex, rapid web application development and deployment.
The two companies will also co-host a 2-day Cloud Foundry Conference on September 2013.
Other vendors making part the Cloud Foundry effort include the likes of Canonical, Dell, enStratus and OpsCode. Pivotal also got an investment worth $105 million from colossal conglomerate General Electric.
Go IBM and Pivotal to Accelerate Open Cloud Innovation with Cloud Foundry
