Helping companies migrate to software defined environments, IBM announced at the recent OpenStack Summit that it is expanding its support of open technologies by providing advanced OpenStack integration and cloud virtualization and management capabilities across the entire IBM server portfolio with IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack.
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack provides support for the latest operating system release, Icehouse, and full access to the complete core OpenStack API set to help clients ensure application portability and avoid vendor lock-in. It also extends cloud management support to System z, in addition to Power Systems, PureFlex/Flex Systems, System x, or any other x86 environment. The new solution also provides support for IBM z/VM on System z, and PowerVC for PowerVM on Power Systems designed to add more scalability and security to Linux environments. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack is also available as a bundled offering with the new IBM Power Systems servers.
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