Cloudify, the open PaaS stack for on-boarding business-critical applications to any cloud, launches community to promote developer collaboration

NEW YORK, March 27 — GigaSpaces Technologies, a pioneer of next generation application platforms for business-critical applications, announces the launch of the CloudifySource Community to support its new open source product that enables organizations to easily on-board and manage any application, on any cloud, with zero code change. Cloudify is provided fully-featured with support for most cloud environments, making the management, deployment and scaling of many OSS products on any cloud simpler than ever.

Built using community driven tools such as GitHub pages, Disqus and ZenDesk, the CloudifySource Community was founded on the premise of promoting collaboration, enabling active participation of its users by:

• Using and contributing to the Cloudify project source code,
• Voting on the Cloudify road-map, as well as suggesting features ideas,
• Sharing recipes and plug-ins for common application stacks,
• Contributing to the community site's content – documentation, blog, webinars, and more.

"We enabled the forking of not only the Cloudify open source product's code from GitHub, but also the entire community itself, because we really hope to leverage the developer user-base to enrich the user experience and ecosystem," says Uri Cohen, VP Product Management at GigaSpaces.

Available today at CloudifySource.org are demos and documentation that demonstrate how Cloudify users can easily deploy their apps using any platform – MongoDB, Cassandra, Tomcat, and many others, onto the cloud of their choice from Amazon, RackSpace, OpenStack, CloudStack, via HP Cloud Services, among others.

"Until now the information on setting up an application environment that includes the development, pre-production and production environments was scattered in various papers, scripts, groups, and plainly in people's heads. Cloudify consolidates all this into a single simple and readable recipe. And now that we can define a complete environment in code in a consistent way, it has only become natural that we share, contribute and collaborate on these environments with different groups and users. The Cloudify community was set up with this purpose in mind, to facilitate these activities, as has proven quite successful with similar communities, such as the DevOps community for Chef, and Big Data and NoSQL communities like Cassandra, and MongoDB," continues Cohen.

Don't miss out on the first the CloudifySource Community webinar on April 24, 2012: The Easy Way to Manage your Sharded MongoDB Setup on Any Cloud, register here.

Availability and Download Information

You can Fork the Cloudify code from GitHub, download the latest milestone build, or download the Cloudify GA release here.

Visit the CloudifySource Community at: cloudifysource.org

Documentation: cloudifysource.org/guide

Forums: forums.cloudifysource.org

Blog: cloudifysource.org/blog

CloudifySourceTV: cloudifysource.org/cloudifysourceTV

About GigaSpaces

GigaSpaces Technologies is the pioneer of a new generation of application virtualization platforms and a leading provider of end-to-end scaling solutions for distributed, mission-critical application environments, and cloud enabling technologies. GigaSpaces is the only platform on the market that offers truly silo-free architecture, along with operational agility and openness, delivering enhanced efficiency, extreme performance and always-on availability. The GigaSpaces solutions are designed from the ground up to run on any cloud environment – private, public, or hybrid – and offer a pain-free, evolutionary path to meet tomorrow's IT challenges. Hundreds of organizations worldwide use GigaSpaces' technology to enhance IT efficiency and performance, among which are Fortune Global 500 companies, including top financial service enterprises, e-commerce companies, online gaming providers, and telecom carriers. For more information, visit gigaspaces.com, or our blog at blog.gigaspaces.com.

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Source: GigaSpaces Technologies