IBM and VMware share a dream where more enterprises deploy hybrid clouds-- bringing about a "strategic partnership" allowing VMware customers to extend virtualised workloads on the public IBM SoftLayer cloud.
Through the partnership customers can automatically provision pre-configured VMware Software Defined Datacentre (SDDC) environments consisting of VMware vSphere, NSX and Virtual SAN on the IBM Cloud. Such capabilities come through "extensive" IBM CloudBuilder tools and workload automation, while extended vRealize Automation and vCenter management tools handle the deployment and management of environments on the IBM cloud.
In addition both IBM and VMware will offer expertise, solutions and infrastructure for customers wantng to manage and scale resources running on private and public clouds.
“This partnership, an extension of our 14-year plus relationship with IBM, demonstrates a shared vision that will help enterprise customers more quickly and easily embrace the hybrid cloud,” VMware says. “Our customers will be able to efficiently and securely deploy their proven software-defined solutions with sophisticated workload automation to take advantage of the flexibility and cost effectiveness of IBM Cloud.”
In other cloud-related IBM announcements the Big Blue cloud platform gets a taste of Swift-- not Taylor Swift the pop starlet, alas, but Swift the Apple programming language. Developers can work on end-to-end apps on IBM-powered cloud instances, share designs in a Swift Package Catalog on the Bluemix PaaS and run Swift programs in OS X and Linux in Kitura, an open source web server.
"Modern digital apps require a modern programming language. Swift is easy to learn, reliable, fast and interactive, the key traits that CIOs look for when building the next generation of enterprise mobile apps," IBM says. "Swift on the Cloud is an opportunity for enterprises to radically simplify the development of end-to-end applications and therefore reach new levels of productivity."
The ever busy IBM also reveals a strategic agreement with GitHub, one putting GitHub Enterprise on the IBM cloud as a dedicated service for hybrid and private cloud users. The deal even has Big Blue employ its security scanning engine to check code for flaws.
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