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| title: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Deltacloud as a Top-Level Project |
| date: '2012-02-16T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <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>
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| <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
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| all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open
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| Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Deltacloud
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| has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project
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| (TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been
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| well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles.</span></font></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">Apache
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| Deltacloud defines a RESTful Web Service application programming
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| interface (API) for interacting with Cloud service providers and
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| resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists
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| of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular Clouds
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| such as Amazon, Eucalyptus, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack,
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| Rackspace, and more. In addition to the API server, the project also
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| provides client libraries for a wide variety of languages.</font></span></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"We
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| are thrilled to have the project's growth and maturity recognized by
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| The Apache Software Foundation," said David Lutterkort, Chair of the
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| Apache Deltacloud Project Management Committee and Principal Software
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| Engineer at Red Hat., "Deltacloud has shown the value of vendor-neutral
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| cloud management API's, and we are excited that, as an Apache Top-Level
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| Project, we will continue to provide choice to cloud users; graduation
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| is a great milestone for our community."</font></span></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"Ubiquity
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| between clouds will be critical in the coming years and Deltacloud
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| enables developers to only have to code towards one API," said Mark
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| Worsey, CIO and EVP of Technology at GoGrid. "At GoGrid, we feel it is
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| extremely important to continue openness within the cloud community and
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| provide APIs that are accessible, useful and adopted by other 3rd party
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| libraries like Deltacloud."</font></span></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"Deltacloud
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| is another example of how open source development continues to drive
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| cloud innovation and development," said Tim Cramer, Vice President of
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| Engineering at Eucalyptus Systems.</font></span></div>
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| <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
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| delivers an elegant ReST API, focused on exposing the differences
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| between cloud services. jclouds and Deltacloud have a strong history
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| together, starting with collaborating on abstraction design in 2009,
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| spiking with our interface to Deltacloud released last year. I'm excited
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| to see Deltacloud's graduation, and looking forward to more shared code
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| 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
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| CloudSoft.</font></span></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">Initially
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| proposed for development within the ASF by Lutterkort in May 2010,
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| Deltacloud was seeded with code developed by Red Hat. Since then, the
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| project has continued to innovate by expanding both its committer base
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| and the diversity of clouds it can manage.</font></span></div>
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| <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
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| Deltacloud software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is
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| overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A
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| Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day
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| operations, including community development and product releases. Apache
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| Deltacloud source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related
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| resources are available at <a href="http://deltacloud.apache.org/">http://deltacloud.apache.org/.</a></span></font></div>
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| <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
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| in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty
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| leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the
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| world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic
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| process known as "The Apache Way," more than 350 individual Members and
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| 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available
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| enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide:
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| thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache
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| License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists,
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| mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user
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| conference, trainings, and expo.
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| The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual
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| donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology,
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| Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Matt Mullenweg,
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| Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more
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| information, visit <a href="http://www.apache.org">http://www.apache.org</a>/.</span></font></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3">"Apache",
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| "Apache Deltacloud", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The Apache
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| Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of
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| their respective owners.</font></span></div>
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| <div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="yiv1807539067MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif';"><font size="3"># <span> </span># <span> </span>#</font></span></div> |
