IBM hedges bets, will keep CloudStack offerings from SoftLayer
June 5, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.
After exuberantly throwing its weight behind OpenStack, IBM now says it will offer cloud services based on CloudStack too, through its SoftLayer acquisition. News broke this morning that IBM plans to buy SoftLayer, which it calls the largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. SoftLayer is known for offering hosting and infrastructure-as-a-service, primarily to small and medium size businesses.
SoftLayer also is known primarily as a Citrix house, including a private cloud product based on CloudStack (formerly owned by Citrix). It also uses OpenStack for its object storage service. Given IBM’s stated support of OpenStack, I was curious about the future of CloudStack at SoftLayer and asked IBM what the acquisition means for the CloudStack products…
An IBM spokeswoman said that the deal won’t impact the CloudStack offerings at SoftLayer. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Either IBM will eventually phase out CloudStack or it has indeed decided to hedge its bets and offer both OpenStack and CloudStack services…
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