IBM Opens Up OpenWhisk for More Serverless Computing

Jason McGee, VP and CTO for IBM cloud platform, discusses the promise of IBM's open-source serverless computing platform.

SEATTLE - One of the many emerging areas of technology today where containers are playing a critical role is that of serverless infrastructure.

The basic premise of Serverless is just that — computing without server — where actions and processes can be initiated programmatically without the need for a long-running server.

IBM has had its OpenWhisk serverless technology available as a beta since February and is now expanding the effort with new Internet of Things (IoT) and node.js capabilities.

OpenWhisk is an open-source effort run by IBM, and in the future it could become part of a larger open-source foundation — for example, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

In a video interview, Jason McGee, VP and CTO for IBM cloud platform, explained what OpenWhisk is all about and where it's headed in the future

Watch the full video interview with Jason McGee below:

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at ServerWatch and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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