#7 IBM – All in for OpenStack

IBM has been along with cloud tech OpenStack for a long time. In March the software giant’s stakes went up in a much bigger way.
As IBM said, it will use OpenStack for all clouds it builds, even adding its own public ‘smart clouds’ which it sells as service also taking every ‘private cloud’ into consideration, of which it installs for, in its enterprise customer’s data centres.
As IBM said, it will be using OpenStack for all clouds it builds, including every of single its own public ‘smart clouds ’which it sells as a service and its ‘private clouds’, installed within the data centers of IBM’s larger base of enterprise customers.
Gartner has also predicted that the Worldwide Cloud Services Market would surpass $206.6 billion market by 2016.

#6 Rackspace is leading a massive coalition for free cloud software

Rackspace has championed against OpenStack by running an Infrastructure as a service cloud (IaaS).
The company didn’t want to pay other firms like VMware for software it couldn’t handle. It therefore partnered with NASA after NASA invented some good cloud software. It had also invited other players who contribute code to make OpenStack work well and stay free.
Rackspace does not own OpenStack, but is one of the strongest companies in the  powerful cloud conglomerate.

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