The move reinforces IBM's commitment to open cloud architectures to drive wide-spread adoption of cloud technologies.
IBM has announced that it is a Premier-level sponsor for OpenStack Summit, which will be held May 12-16, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The OpenStack Summit is the premier open cloud event, bringing together thousands of OpenStack contributors, users and ecosystem members.
IBM's ongoing relationship with open standards organizations such as OpenStack reflects the company's long history of supporting open standards and open source initiatives. IBM's support of OpenStack and the OpenStack Summit is driven by its goal of helping companies develop and adopt open cloud computing platforms. In fact, IBM recently announced that it is investing more than $1 billion in an open standards based Platform-as-a-Service based on Openstack and Cloud Foundry.