IBM and Red Hat Expand Collaborate for Boosting Cloud Adoption

IBM and Red Hat plan to jointly market and sell the new offerings for private Cloud deployments using OpenStack API’s

India: India based software giant, IBM has collaborated with Red Hat, the software solution provider to offer hybrid Cloud Infrastructure to the customers for helping them to run the cloud applications more efficiently using OpenStack APIs.

With this collaboration, IBM has become the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider, and will be deploying Infrastructure-as-a-Services(IaaS). Zane Adam, the Vice President of IBM Cloud stated, “The strategic collaboration between IBM and Red Hat is designed to enable clients to more easily adopt open source products and OpenStack cloud software while preserving their existing investments and creating new business opportunities.”

IBM will enable companies to preserve and extend Red Hat software investment while providing the global scale and efficiency of IBM Cloud. Also, leading hybrid cloud application management is already using the service in beta and has deployed its Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads in the IBM Private Cloud.

TechSci Research believes that with the efforts being taken by great tech giants is designed to enable clients to more easily adopt open source products and OpenStack cloud software while preserving their existing investments and creating new business opportunities in the country. This is expected to boost the market of Cloud Computing in India during the coming years.

According to recently released report by TechSci Research, “India Cloud Computing Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2020”, the market for cloud computing services in India is projected to grow at a CAGR of over 22% during 2015-2020. Increased government spending on National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and various e-governance portals, coupled with growing acceptance of cloud services in SME segment is expected to drive the market for cloud computing. SaaS is set to top the charts as the largest cloud service segment, occupying over 40% share in the market by 2020. However, cloud services are likely to face stiff challenges pertaining to data security, vendor lock-in period and less availability of quality IT hardware infrastructure in semi-urban regions acrossthe country.