IBM Taps Cisco Tech for New Managed Private Cloud Service

IBM announced a new fully managed private cloud service based on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), which combines datacenter server hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric, storage access and management software. Cisco UCS will power the new Managed Private Cloud-as-a-Service that runs on industry-standard, x86-architecture servers in two distinct flavors based on the choice of virtualization tech. VMware, the traditional flagship offering from the virtualization kingpin .RedHat OpenShift, an open source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container orchestrator for enterprise software development and deployment.