What will be the impact of IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat on the journey to multicloud? https://www.crowdcha...
Randy Arseneau
Sorry, gotta sit this one out. :)
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David Floyer
The IBM vision of an open source hybrid cloud stack and management is excellent, and very ambitious!
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Kurt Milne
OpenShift will soon support IBM cloud. Non of the OpenShift solutions support IBM cloud currently. Per my review of documentation.
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Eric Wright
I predict it will incrementally accelerate things. Not a 10x opportunity. There aren't too many 10x things left in the multicloud journey story.
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jameskobielus
IBM/Red Hat will dominate enterprise IT customers' on-ramp to the public cloud.
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Eric Wright
@discoposse the 10x opportunities are within the layers. Security, cost, and performance will be the battleground for orgs to properly keep on path to aggressive cloud adoption.
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Dave Vellante
https://wikibon.com/... - my take
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Sarbjeet Johal
It's great form IBM. For industry in general, net-net it won't have much effect, as some positive effects will be negated with negative effects as one key CSP-neutral vendor is taken out.
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jameskobielus
IBM/Red Hat will have one of the dominant K8s software and managed services platforms.
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Dave Vellante
I think this is a services deal for IBM - IBM has a captive base of legacy apps through its services business at which it can aim Red Hat offerings - imo it's why Ginni keeps stressing the deal is not backend loaded...