IBM acquires cloud broker Gravitant

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Claire Hopping.

IBM has bought cloud brokerage software developer Gravitant in an effort to boost the company’s hybrid cloud and enterprise offerings. Gravitant helps companies assess, buy and manage the best cloud computing services for their business from multiple vendors, meaning no lock-in and greater flexibility for both employees and IT departments.

IBM is looking to bolster its hybrid cloud and enterprise computing services to make them more attractive for decision makers who want to embrace the cloud by opening up their infrastructure. Doing so allows employees to use services hosted on-premise, on public cloud services, and those running on IBM’s own private cloud servers…

Gravitant will become part of IBM’s Global Technology Services unit and speculation suggests the company will integrate Gravitant’s management console into its managed services offering, improving the way companies control their cloud-based software…

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