Rackspace Tools Connect Microsoft.NET to OpenStack Clouds
May 7, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Rackspace is connecting the dots between Microsoft.NET and OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform. The move could simplify Web and mobile application development for the Microsoft .NET community. As one of the most popular programming platforms around today, the .NET framework already receives a great deal of support from Microsoft and partners across the IT channel. Programming tools catering to .NET develolpers proliferate, and Microsoft’s Visual Studio helps to streamline the development of .NET applications.
Still, as a software framework that Microsoft unveiled more than a decade ago, .NET is not exactly what one could call "cloud native" (not that many programming frameworks, even at this point in the game, are). But Rackspace is working to make it easier to leverage .NET expertise for the cloud via a couple key initiatives that more seamlessly integrate .NET into Rackspace’s OpenStack-based cloud platform…
One important new tool introduced by Rackspace recently is a Software Development Kit (SDK) for .NET tailored to the Rackspace cloud. Available as a free download for users of Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer Express (which is also free), the Rackspace SDK provides a language API, programming documentation and other resources to jumpstart .NET development for the company’s OpenStack cloud platform…
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