Microsoft and IBM come together in the cloud

Microsoft and IBM have signed an agreement to bring more of their software offerings in their respective clouds.


After announcing an agreement with SAP and Oracle, Microsoft confirmed and signed with IBM. The two companies have formed a strategic partnership to combine their cloud. Big Blue and the Redmond and will each offer their enterprise software in the cloud of the other. IBM middleware, including WebSphere Liberty, MQ and DB2 will be available on Azure. While Windows Server and SQL Server will be available on the IBM Cloud.

In addition, the two giants announced that they will collaborate with the objective to provide runtimes and tools for the Microsoft .NET development for IBM development platform PaaS Bluemix. "It will enable millions of .NET developers to create scalable applications for their clients on the IBM Cloud platform," it is specified in the release of Microsoft.

The Redmond company also recalled SoftLayer IBM already supports a wide range of Microsoft with Windows Server, Hyper-V, WebMatrix, Windows Firewall, SQL Server software.