Cloud Foundry Launches Cross-Vendor Cloud Service Certification
December 21, 2015
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babbcock.
Cloud Foundry, the open source project for application developers, says modern apps can be developed on its platform to run in multiple clouds. Furthermore, it will certify which cloud products and services are guaranteed to work with applications produced on Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry Certified is a kind of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval that says: Develop on Cloud Foundry and your application will work with the following tools and cloud environments. One publication, the UK’s The Register, even called it the "good cloud-keeping seal of approval."
The program is starting off with a list of seven cloud suppliers. Amazon isn’t on the list, but other partners include IBM Bluemix, HP Enterprise Helion on-premises cloud, CenturyLink’s AppFog development platform (based on Cloud Foundry open source), SAP HANA Cloud Platform, and Chinese giant Huawei’s FusionStage…
Huawei’s FusionStage is a set of cloud services that it says it hopes will one day "equal Google in cloud services."…
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