Now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up, a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging. Amazon Web Services teamed up with IBM to provide pay-as-you-go access to Big Blue’s database servers, Lotus and Websphere middleware running on Novell SUSE Linux. Those applications will run on Amazon’s EC2. While much of the details have been covered, what’s notable is the vision. IBM’s cloud will connect to Amazon’s and licenses will also carry over. To the enterprise, IBM’s endorsement makes Amazon and official member of the corporate cloud club.
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