Big Blue put its back into OpenStack Monday at its Pulse conference in Las Vegas, almost a year after lending its name to the open source cloud platform started by Rackspace and NASA – which has abandoned it.
It announced that “its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.”
It said it’s doing it in the name of open standards, arguing that “this move will ensure innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of unsecured and difficult-to-manage offerings. Without industry-wide open standards for cloud computing, businesses will not be able to fully take advantage of the opportunities associated with interconnected data, such as mobile computing and Big Data.” Ah, FUD.
Basically IBM has declared war on Amazon Web Services and its de facto standards.