IBM has announced that it will migrate cloud computing services to open source platform in a move to increase customer customisation and flexibility.

Enterprise level cloud computing software hosted on vendor free open source software will allow companies to build and structure their own cloud deployments while allowing developers to increase platform delivery times and condense cloud operations.

IBM senior vice president of software Robert LeBlanc, said: "Just as standards and open source revolutionized the Web and Linux, they will also have a tremendous impact on cloud computing. IBM has been at the forefront of championing standards and open source for years, and we are doing it again for cloud computing".

IBM looks to take on Amazon Web Services