Big Blue also slurps Turbonomic to give hybrid clouds an injection of AI automation Share IBM has made some interesting container-and-hybrid-cloud-centric moves. Earlier this week the company announced its intention to deliver a container-native software defined storage product, called IBM Spectrum Fusion, in the second half of 2021. Big Blue said it will initially be sold as a hyperconverged infrastructure that includes Red Hat OpenShift and can handle virtual machines and containers, or provide software defined storage “for cloud, edge and containerized data centres.” As observed by a trio of Forrester analysts, IBM’s move is interesting because most hyperconverged infrastructure is built around virtual machines. And while VMware has its own Tanzu container stack, Forrester said that while it is virtualized, it is also “… monolithic, and the native scale-out features brought to the market by open source-derived alternatives will make some infrastructure managers take a second look before reupping their existing licensing.”