EMC Corp. has found one of the biggest names in computing to formally join its Cloud Foundry open platform-as-a-service project.
IBM Corp. said Wednesday that it will be a major partner on the project, being overseen by EMC’s Pivotal Initiative division, aimed at building a platform for organizations to deploy and manage cloud applications. Cloud Foundry, still in beta, will also be incorporated into IBM’s cloud architecture products.
As an open source project, Cloud Foundry depends mainly on independent developers and software companies who have been quietly working on it. IBM’s contributions include preview versions of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core, a lightweight version of WebSphere Application Server IBM Java, both tailored for Cloud Foundry.
But Pivotal now says it will bring more partners forward by forming a community advisory board of Cloud Foundry users and vendors – including IBM – to create an open governance model to guide the work. Pivotal will continue to “steward” the brand.
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The Cloud Foundry Hosted Developer Edition is a paid service, although there is an open source version that can be freely downloaded.
The Pivotal Initiative, formed last December, pulls a number of EMC’s big data and cloud application projects under one roof.