VMware today announced a new open source project - Cloud Foundry, which is the industry's first "platform as a service" (PaaS) open source project.
"shift to cloud computing is the most fundamental change in the application of business and customer needs, greatly challenges the traditional application development and infrastructure", Vmware application platform department head Tod Nielsen says, and also cited the company's official statement. "Clound Foundry surprisingly the diversity of modern software development and fast simplification looking for the mobile market, social networking and cloud computing market, the key market trends, the simplified approach in today's most successful software applications play a central Roles. "
VMware Cloud Foundry claimed the most outstanding features is the" multi-cloud "to build, in both private and public environments. And it can support a large number of different application architecture and development tools.
this platform can help developers using Java or other JVM-based architecture building applications. For example Grails , Roo , Rails and Ruby version Sinatra (support for Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 version) and Node.js these architectures < / a>. The plug-in application services platform, such as RabbitMQ and GemFire , these are VMware's own tools. RabbitMQ is an open source messaging platform, GemFire is a distributed system management tool. Cloud Foundry also supports MySQL, MongoDB and Redis , and plans to join VMware's own vFabric application services.
Jerry Chen, VMware's cloud and application services senior official said, the Java perspective, any application can be packaged into a WAR file, which can then be placed in a Servlet container and run in Cloud Foundry. But this product is now does not support Java EE applications.
code is now available from GitHub to download, Follow the Apache 2 license. This code is based on VMware also constructed a testing service cloudfoundry.com .
in the webcast, VMware also demonstrated a single point of Cloud Foundry developers instance running on a virtual machine. Called Micro Cloud of this product will be released in the second quarter of 2011. Chen also like InfoQ confirmed a version of this product will be released as an open source project.
when referring to the source of profits, VMware said that it has a commercial version of Cloud Foundry, this version mainly for hope to be able to provide PasS private cloud capabilities and hope for enterprise users through its own public cloud service providers Cloud Foundry functional service provider. VMware also said that the commercial version also allows businesses to be able to PasS environment and their application architecture and service integration. But did not introduce pricing information.
view the original English text: VMware Unveils Open Source PaaS Cloud Foundry
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