Partnership provides support for an instance of Spark that can be deployed on top of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
IBM believes Spark is the most significant open source project of the next decade. It's backing the statement up by committing thousands of researchers and donating machine learning technology to Apache Spark.
As customers increasingly outsource infrastructure in bid for agility, the deal gives ViaWest broader risk-management and compliance consulting capabilities