At DockerCon in San Francisco today, IBM announced IBM Containers, an enterprise-class containers based on Docker and built on Big Blue’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS). The service, IBM says, is intended to help developers deliver applications across hybrid cloud environments.

IBM also announced that it has joined with a number of partners to create the Open Container Platform (OCP), a coalition intended to ensure that containers are interoperable, fostering the rapid growth of container-based solutions.

One cloud vision

“Our strategy around cloud is to make all of these clouds behave as one,” says Angel Diaz, vice president of Cloud Architecture & Technology at IBM. “No application, no solution is an island. Everything is connected.”

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