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After announcing
some cloud related intiatives yesterday, IBM has teamed
up with Amazon Web Services to offer IBM middleware products on EC2 running
Suse Linux. This includes IBM DB2, IBM Lotus® content management, and
IBM WebSphere® portal. This is significant for Amazon as it helps
them to position themselves as a serious enterprise player. The AMIs are
available in IBM’s Cloud
Computing Space.
Along with Open Source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, Amazon has
already teamed up with Oracle to offer Oracle on the
Clouds. By adding DB2 to its kitty, Amazon is positioning itself as a major
player in the cloud infrastructure space. In the beginning of this year, while
offering my predictions
for 2009, I was talking about a big push in the enterprise side. If the
trends so far are ny indication, we will definitely see a changed landscape by
the end of this year. Even though this news is not all that significant like
Microsoft’s announcement
of Windows Azure, it is pretty important from enterprise cloud computing
point of view.
While I am at this news, I want to point towards an article by Tim Jones at IBM Developerworks, titled Cloud
Computing With Linux. In this post, he talks about the role of Linux and
Open Source in the Cloud Computing landscape. Check it out.
