IBM said has added features to the RefStack Project, an effort that rides shotgun with OpenStack and aims to make cloud computing environments more interoperable.
The news was outlined at the OpenStack Summit in Austin, TX.
RefStack is a project that launched last year to more easily more data and apps across clouds. IBM is a lead contributor.
For IBM, the RefStack and more interoperability could enable it to become one of the go-to cloud vendors along with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google.
Part of the dream behind OpenStack is to create a platform where customers can operate clouds and co-mingle them. IBM is contributing usability enhancements to RefStack, plug-in enablement and stability enhancements. IBM is also pitching developers on an interoperability challenge in October. Developers will demonstrate interoperability between on-premise, public and hybrid OpenStack deployments.
Among other OpenStack Summit-related vendor announcements:
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