0 IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator: Company’s first open source cloud software

One of the world’s leading business computer producers, IBM has announced that it will make all its cloud services and software on an open source cloud architecture. By doing so, innovation in the cloud computing will increase pace as the sector still lacks industry-wide open standards.

Based on requirements by their customer, the company has disclosed a new private cloud service based on the open sourced OpenStack. Named as the IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator, the new open source cloud software gives clients greater flexibility by removing the need to develop specific interfaces for different cloud services.

The new software will enable companies to quickly combine and deploy various cloud services onto the cloud infrastructure by allocating computational, storage and network resources with an easily with an extremely user-friendly graphical user interface.

The new IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator will also help reduce operational costs by automating application deployment and lifecycle management in the cloud: computational, storage and network configuration, human tasks automation and integration with third party tools. It will also help simplify the end user utilization of cloud services, through a self-service portal which will also include the ability to measure the cost of cloud services with metering and charge-back capabilities.

Robert LeBlanc, IBM senior vice president of software said,

“History has shown that open source and standards are hugely beneficial to end customers and are a major catalyst for innovation. Just as standards and open source revolutionized the Web and Linux, they will also have a tremendous impact on cloud computing. IBM has been at the forefront of championing standards and open source for years and we are doing it again for cloud computing.  The winner here will be customers, who will not find themselves locked into any one vendor — but be free to choose the best platform based on the best set of capabilities that meet that needs.”