IBM and Cisco acquire OpenStack providers
June 5, 2015
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Trevor Jones.
OpenStack distribution options continue to shrink as two more small vendors have been gobbled up by bigger players looking to stake their claims in cloud. Market consolidation around the open source cloud technology has been a familiar theme over the past year, and that continued this week as IBM and Cisco each said they plan to acquire OpenStack providers.
The former plans to buy hosted private cloud provider Blue Box and the latter is set to buy private cloud platform and support services provider Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., though terms of the two separate deals were not disclosed…
"Cisco and IBM are looking to make sure they have a full suite of products and services that can help solve their on-premise, hosted or public cloud capabilities," said Al Sadowski, research director at 451 Research, LLC, based in New York. "Both can now check the box that they can support complete hybrid solutions."…
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