The suit alleges that IBM stole proprietary code from a company whose assets Xinuos now owns, then colluded with Red Hat to lock Xinuos out of the Linux market.
Following in the footsteps of other providers' hybrid solutions, IBM has built a solution for consuming its cloud services in any data center, not just its own.
Its new Power-based hardware appliance for IBM cloud on premises ships with Red Hat's container orchestration platform. Power Systems and IaaS now feature expanded OpenShift support.