US: International Business Machines Corp (IBM) yesterday announced that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. As the first step, IBM has introduced its new software IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator which gives its clients greater flexibility by removing the need to develop specific interfaces for different cloud services. With the new software, companies can quickly combine and deploy various cloud services onto the cloud infrastructure by lining up the compute, storage and network resources with an easy-to-use graphical interface.
The open cloud architecture concept is designed to ensure that innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of insecure and difficult-to-manage offerings.
