IBM revealed once again its support to open standards and open source actions, this time the Big Blue has announced to be Premier-level sponsor for the next OpenStack Summit that is going to be held in Atlanta, at the Georgia World Congress Center on May 12-16.The OpenStack Summit aims to mold the future of the cloud computing and IBM is one of the top supporter of the OpenStack community offering more than 330 IBM resources, furthermore integrating OpenStack into IBM offerings, and it has aldo announced to be investing more than $1 billion in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry’s open standards based Platform-as-a Service.
Additionally IBM declared its interest in the embracing of cloud computing and Big Blue was named as a founding member of jQuery, home to a JavaScript community that aims to simplify coding tasks. Also, IBM joined Pivotal to establish the Cloud Foundry to allow global collaboration with developers and cloud computing technologists in order to create a Platform-as-a-Service open source cloud computing platform for hybrid clouds.
Dr. Angel Diaz, IBM’s Vice President of Open Technology and Cloud Performance Solutions, said:
IBM strongly believes that fostering an industry-wide, open cloud architecture and simplifying how applications are built and deployed are vital to broader adoption of cloud computing, as a Platinum member of OpenStack and now a Premier sponsor of the Summit, IBM will continue to play an active role driving widespread adoption of cloud technologies based on open standards to enable interoperability and avoid vendor lock-in.