Mirantis joins Cloud Foundry Foundation

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.

OpenStack specialist Mirantis has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation in a move being slated as furthering open standards in the maturing cloud industry, as Mirantis looks to support customers topping off their cloud computing stack with a developer layer for building out applications and services.

Mirantis styles itself as the "pure-play" OpenStack company, offering a straight build of the open source cloud computing framework that is not integrated with proprietary technology. Other vendors offer an OpenStack build that is designed to operate with their existing products, such as VMware, which runs OpenStack atop vSphere…

But OpenStack only represents part of the overall cloud stack, and organisations also need a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer for development and operation of applications and services…

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