IBM admits Cloud Foundry demand “in its infancy”

Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Joe Curtis.

IBM has admitted demand for the open source initiative Cloud Foundry is "in its infancy", but predicts the collaborative venture will catch and keep developers with the quality of its cloud computing technology. The firm signed up to the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) project last July, and just last week was announced as one of the founding members of a forthcoming independent organisation, the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which will oversee the neutrality of the initiative.

Cloud Foundry has emerged as the cloud computing equivalent of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) counterpart OpenStack since its creation in April 2011, and lets developers develop and deploy applications on its PaaS platform.  IBM is just one of numerous tech firms to bet on the initiative, and last week announced a $1bn investment to develop its PaaS capabilities…

UK and Ireland CTO of cloud computing, Mark Tomlinson, told CBR: "We’re putting a lot of our hopes on Cloud Foundry. The consumption model on Cloud Foundry is very attractive for the developer community because you just build your application and deploy it. "In terms of customer interest and demand for that, I think it’s in its infancy at the moment, but I think without a doubt we see that really as the next wave of cloud computing."…

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