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| title: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Deltacloud as a Top-Level Project |
| id: 5f30b3f6-08bb-4b44-bb0d-592b28994f87 |
| date: '2012-02-16 16:53:40 -0500' |
| categories: foundation |
| tags: |
| - top-level |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - apache |
| - incubator |
| - tlp |
| - deltacloud |
| - project |
| - cloud |
| permalink: foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces22 |
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| <p><b><i><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">Innovative Open Source interoperability toolkit provides any-platform access and support for all major Cloud service providers</font></span></i></b> </p> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';">Forest Hill, MD – 15 February 2012 –</span></b><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"> The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),<span> </span>the<br /> |
| all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open<br /> |
| Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Deltacloud<br /> |
| has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project<br /> |
| (TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been<br /> |
| well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles.</span></font></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">Apache<br /> |
| Deltacloud defines a RESTful Web Service application programming<br /> |
| interface (API) for interacting with Cloud service providers and<br /> |
| resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists<br /> |
| of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular Clouds<br /> |
| such as Amazon, Eucalyptus, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack,<br /> |
| Rackspace, and more. In addition to the API server, the project also<br /> |
| provides client libraries for a wide variety of languages.</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"We<br /> |
| are thrilled to have the project's growth and maturity recognized by<br /> |
| The Apache Software Foundation," said David Lutterkort, Chair of the<br /> |
| Apache Deltacloud Project Management Committee and Principal Software<br /> |
| Engineer at Red Hat., "Deltacloud has shown the value of vendor-neutral<br /> |
| cloud management API's, and we are excited that, as an Apache Top-Level<br /> |
| Project, we will continue to provide choice to cloud users; graduation<br /> |
| is a great milestone for our community."</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"Ubiquity<br /> |
| between clouds will be critical in the coming years and Deltacloud<br /> |
| enables developers to only have to code towards one API," said Mark<br /> |
| Worsey, CIO and EVP of Technology at GoGrid. "At GoGrid, we feel it is<br /> |
| extremely important to continue openness within the cloud community and<br /> |
| provide APIs that are accessible, useful and adopted by other 3rd party<br /> |
| libraries like Deltacloud."</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"Deltacloud<br /> |
| is another example of how open source development continues to drive<br /> |
| cloud innovation and development," said Tim Cramer, Vice President of<br /> |
| Engineering at Eucalyptus Systems.</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"</font></span><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">Deltacloud<br /> |
| delivers an elegant ReST API, focused on exposing the differences<br /> |
| between cloud services. jclouds and Deltacloud have a strong history<br /> |
| together, starting with collaborating on abstraction design in 2009,<br /> |
| spiking with our interface to Deltacloud released last year. I'm excited<br /> |
| to see Deltacloud's graduation, and looking forward to more shared code<br /> |
| this year,</font></span><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"</font></span><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3"> said Adrian Cole, founder of jclouds.org and CTO jclouds at<br /> |
| CloudSoft.</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">Initially<br /> |
| proposed for development within the ASF by Lutterkort in May 2010,<br /> |
| Deltacloud was seeded with code developed by Red Hat. Since then, the<br /> |
| project has continued to innovate by expanding both its committer base<br /> |
| and the diversity of clouds it can manage.</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';">Availability and Oversight<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';">Apache<br /> |
| Deltacloud software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is<br /> |
| overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A<br /> |
| Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day<br /> |
| operations, including community development and product releases. Apache<br /> |
| Deltacloud source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related<br /> |
| resources are available at <a href="http://deltacloud.apache.org/">http://deltacloud.apache.org/.</a></span></font></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';">About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)<var id="yiv1807539067yui-ie-cursor"></var><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';">Established<br /> |
| in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty<br /> |
| leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the<br /> |
| world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic<br /> |
| process known as "The Apache Way," more than 350 individual Members and<br /> |
| 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available<br /> |
| enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide:<br /> |
| thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache<br /> |
| License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists,<br /> |
| mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user<br /> |
| conference, trainings, and expo.<br /> |
| The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual<br /> |
| donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology,<br /> |
| Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Matt Mullenweg,<br /> |
| Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more<br /> |
| information, visit <a href="http://www.apache.org">http://www.apache.org</a>/.</span></font></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"Apache",<br /> |
| "Apache Deltacloud", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The Apache<br /> |
| Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of<br /> |
| their respective owners.</font></span></div> |
| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3"># <span> </span># <span> </span>#</font></span></div> |
