IBM inks deal with VMWare, tries to bolster cloud credentials

Computing giant IBM has expanded its partnership with VMWare , one of several initiatives it plans to announce Monday as it works to carve out a bigger role in the fast-growing field of cloud computing. The VMWare agreement will make it easier and faster for companies using VMWare's virtualization products to deploy and run them on IBM's cloud data centers, so those companies can easily connect their own data centers to the cloud. The idea is to make IBM's services more attractive to VMWare's cu