The IBM-led resolution -- dubbed the Open Cloud Manifesto -- calls for making cloud computing products compatible with each other to boost their appeal to businesses. "Cloud computing" calls for making cloud computing products compatible with each other to boost their appeal to businesses. The tech industry is under pressure to encourage businesses to adopt cloud computing technologies, which could help them save money by outsourcing part of their IT operations to mega-data centers that can achieve huge economies of scale. IBM sees the manifesto as a first step toward establishing specific standards so customers can confidently switch between cloud-computing providers.
Backers of the manifesto include AT&T Corp., Cisco Systems Inc, EMC Corp, Novell Inc, Red Hat Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc and VMware Inc. But rival Microsoft Corp dismissed the effort, accusing International Business Machines Corp of seeking to exert control of the field, while cloud-computing pioneers Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc, Salesforce.com Inc were conspicuously absent from a list of companies endorsing it.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
IBM leads techs in seeking open "cloud" computing
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