Growing Support for VMware’s Open Initiative Cloud Foundry
VMware’s Cloud Foundry, the first of open PaaS offerings, is currently in beta but having quite a start. We’ve heard of quite a bit of developments related to the offering in the past few weeks in particular, and now, the support for Cloud Foundry is beginning to accelerate. The Register reports that ActiveState, the company who owns the Python and Perl programming languages, have released an early implementation of VMware’s cloud foundry.
ActiveState says that it help reduce the effort of migrating Python and Perl apps from VMware environments behind a fireball to public and private VMware clouds.
“ActiveState’s implementation, a service it calls Stackato, also introduces early tooling to debug and test new applications built using Python and Perl for VMware clouds.”
Stackato also works with Node.JS, which is a server-side JavaScript platform based on the Google V8 JavaScript engine. Node.JS is supported n the original VMware Cloud Foundry code.
VMware Cloud Foundry is the virtulization giant’s first cloud product, and is already gaining attention from some serious open-source and cloud companies. However, did have a rough start which affected its entire, still relatively small customer base. Cloud Foundry suffered two outages throughout a period of two days, and second more significant one cut off customers’ access to their applications and networks all together.
Ironically, the second outage was a result of human error in an effort to avoid outages such as the first one on the longer run, which only blocked customers access to the backend of their applications.
When talking about open source initiatives, one of the biggest names to come up is OpenStack. The latest update comes from managed service provider Internap, who recently announced that it will offer a public infrastructure-as-a-service cloud based on OpenStack. Key OpenStack partner Citrix has also been active in this industry, and our news editor Kristen Nicole interviewed Kurt Roemer, Citrix’s Chief Security Strategist, the Commissioner on the Cloud2 initiative.
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