Microsoft Cross Enterprise Software On Each Other’s Clouds
IBM and Microsoft have announced a new partnership designed to run several enterprise software offerings from their respective companies on each other's public and hybrid cloud offerings. This will give customers, partners and developers more options ranging from what cloud provider will offer the infrastructure needed to additional choices for development platforms within that selected provider.
IBM middleware including products such as WebSphere Liberty, MQ and DB2 will become available on Microsoft Azure, while Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server will be available on the IBM cloud. In addition to operating systems and middleware, IBM and Microsoft are also working on bringing the Microsoft .Net runtimes with relevant tooling to the IBM Bluemix (cloud platform as a service) offering. IBM and Microsoft are also expanding their support of hybrid cloud deployments by enabling expanding support for more IBM software on Hyper-V and enabling IBM Pure Application Service available on Microsoft Azure.
“Together we are creating new opportunities to drive innovation in hybrid cloud,” said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, Software and Cloud Solutions Group, IBM. “This agreement reinforces IBM’s strategy in providing open cloud technology for the enterprise. Clients will now gain unprecedented access to IBM’s leading middleware and will have an even greater level of choice over the tools that they use to build and deploy their cloud environments.”
“Microsoft is committed to helping enterprise customers realize the tremendous benefits of cloud computing across their own systems, partner clouds and Microsoft Azure,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft. “With this agreement more customers will be able to take advantage of the hyper-scale, enterprise performance and hybrid capabilities of Azure.”
In addition to customers being able to bring their existing licenses to the IBM and Microsoft clouds, Microsoft will also offer IBM middleware software licenses for key products such as WebSphere Liberty, MQ and DB2 with a pay-per-use license model. By simplifying license and support concerns, both companies benefit with IBM gaining expanded platforms for its middleware offerings and Microsoft continuing to expand the reach of Azure into more enterprise software partnerships.
The cloud consumer is ultimately the true winner, having vendor-specific enterprise software offerings now available, supported and licensed through multiple cloud vendors. Although neither vendor has released pricing information, we presume that the two companies will keep costs similar to one another. However, the ancillary services offered could be the deciding factor for the customer.
“Together we are creating new opportunities to drive innovation in hybrid cloud,” said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, Software and Cloud Solutions Group, IBM. “This agreement reinforces IBM’s strategy in providing open cloud technology for the enterprise. Clients will now gain unprecedented access to IBM’s leading middleware and will have an even greater level of choice over the tools that they use to build and deploy their cloud environments.”
“Microsoft is committed to helping enterprise customers realize the tremendous benefits of cloud computing across their own systems, partner clouds and Microsoft Azure,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft. “With this agreement more customers will be able to take advantage of the hyper-scale, enterprise performance and hybrid capabilities of Azure.”
In addition to customers being able to bring their existing licenses to the IBM and Microsoft clouds, Microsoft will also offer IBM middleware software licenses for key products such as WebSphere Liberty, MQ and DB2 with a pay-per-use license model. By simplifying license and support concerns, both companies benefit with IBM gaining expanded platforms for its middleware offerings and Microsoft continuing to expand the reach of Azure into more enterprise software partnerships.
The cloud consumer is ultimately the true winner, having vendor-specific enterprise software offerings now available, supported and licensed through multiple cloud vendors. Although neither vendor has released pricing information, we presume that the two companies will keep costs similar to one another. However, the ancillary services offered could be the deciding factor for the customer.
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