Biggish Blue has announced that it will add Red Hat storage product roadmaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit.
The cunning plan is to integrate the storage technologies from Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as the foundation for IBM Spectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat’s container storage technologies for data services and helps accelerate IBM’s capabilities in the burgeoning Kubernetes platform market.
In addition, IBM wants to offer new Ceph solutions delivering a unified and software-defined storage platform that bridges the architectural divide between the data centre and cloud providers. This further advances IBM’s leadership in the software-defined storage and Kubernetes platform markets.
IBM Storage general manager Denis Kennelly said that by bringing together the teams and integrating our products under one roof, IBM was accelerating its hybrid cloud storage strategy while maintaining commitments to Red Hat customers and the open-source community.
Red Hat VP Joe Fernandes said: “With IBM Storage taking stewardship of Red Hat Ceph Storage and OpenShift Data Foundation, IBM will help accelerate open-source storage innovation and expand the market opportunity beyond what each of us could deliver on our own. We believe this is a clear win for customers who can gain a more comprehensive platform with new hybrid cloud-native storage capabilities.” Whatever that means.
