CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Joe Onisick.

The Apache Software Foundation announced in late March that CloudStack is now a top-level project. This is a promotion from CloudStack’s incubator status, where it had lived after being released as open source by Citrix. This promotion provides additional encouragement to companies and developers looking to contribute to the project, because it validates the CloudStack community and demonstrates ongoing support under the Apache Software Foundation.

CloudStack provides a complete IaaS software suite for private, public and hybrid cloud environments. It’s based on a product called Cloud.com, which Citrix acquired in 2011. CloudStack comes from a proprietary code base that was used in production before being acquired…

The suite is both stable and scalable, and CloudStack is currently used by companies such as Disney and Zynga, among others. The project is a turnkey platform complete with enterprise and service provider deployment models supported by Citrix…

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