#ALGORITHMS: "IBM Backs OpenStack SDEs "

What's an SDE? Software defined environments of course, also called software defined data centers. The idea is to make everything programmable, from the bare metal all the way up to the applications. OpenStack does that by virtualizing all compute, storage and networking resources. And just as IBM put Linux on the map as a first-class professional solution to operating systems, likewise its support of OpenStack will also put it on the fast-track to dominating the future of SDEs: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

SDEs cast the data center architecture into reusable software patterns that can be realized as an infrastructure pattern using open-source APIs.

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