Martin Casado, co-founder and CTO of Nicira, wrote a blog today reaffirming Nicira and VMware’s commitment to open source, and specific actions Nicira and VMware teams are taking to continue leadership on OpenStack Quantum. I echo Martin’s comments and would like to share more about VMware’s commitment to this and other open-source communities as well as to the broader interoperability needs of modern cloud computing.
A year has passed since VMware launched Cloud FoundryTM , a major milestone in our mission to “Simplify IT”. We are focusing on simplifying application creation, deployment, and operations via an approach we call open platform as a service, or “ Open PaaS ” – an approach that gives developers choice as to where they deploy and run their applications. Cloud Foundry debuted on April 12th 2011 as an open source project and has since garnered broad industry support, providing developers with a choice of frameworks, application services and multi-cloud deployment options. Cloud Foundry lets developers focus their energy on building applications while infrastructure is transparently delivered as a service. We are celebrating Cloud Foundry’s first birthday today...
It has been nine months since we launched Cloud FoundryTM – the industry’s first open platform as a service (aka PaaS). Cloud Foundry debuted with both the CloudFoundry.com service and as an open source project via CloudFoundry.org and we have seen a rich ecosystem of technology providers and service providers emerge around Cloud Foundry. Offering a choice of clouds, developer frameworks and application services, Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, deploy and scale applications. We have made great progress on delivering developers a choice of frameworks and application services and now want to highlight the choice of both public and private clouds Cloud Foundry provides today. Multi-Cloud – “Write Once, Cloud Anywhere”...
