Published via Inbox: 2013-05-09 19:20:10
Opscode VP of marketing Jay Wampold says IBM and Microsoft’s moves show that enterprise customers are ready for cloud-type deployments. “If you look back over a decade, you see that Google, Facebook and Amazon figured out how to leverage large-scale infrastructure to deliver to consumers built from the ground up on code. Now you’re seeing major [older] enterprises moving IT from a back-office support function for internal operations into a front-office effort that is a touch point for consumers,” Wampold said.
IBM is integrating Chef into SmartCloud and MIcrosoft is adding support for Azure as well in a sign that enterprises are fully aboard the devops bandwagon.
My Two Cents
IBM's Smart Cloud team is going full court press on "open source" cloud. With OpenStack and with Chef and with
