IBM to adopt OpenStack as foundation of its cloud offerings

IBM Makes OpenStack The Cloud Platform To Beat – ReadWrite

Here is the IBM press release about their plans to use OpenStack:

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40519.wss

Also follow IBM Cloud on Twitter to see what they are up to (heh:):

https://mobile.twitter.com/ibmcloud

Interesting news, recent, seen via Twitter.

OpenStack (and its history) are interesting too:

http://www.openstack.org/

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack/

http://www.wired.com/insights/2012/06/nasa-openstack-amazon/

Parts of OpenStack, including the core, OpenStack Compute (Nova), are written in Python.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/openstack-2/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/citrix-cloudstack/