Like Red Hat, HashiCorp was built on an open-source background, where software is shared freely to use and modify. For some CIOs, the combination of IBM’s cloud-computing platform, HashiCorp and ...

‘HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in a statement Wednesday.

IBM executives painted the planned $6.4 billion purchase of cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp as complementary to multiple business segments – including fellow open-source tools ...