Red Hat Takes Aim at the Open Cloud with Deltacloud

A key part of being open in the cloud as is the case in every other segment of IT, is preventing vendor lock-in. One way that Red Hat is helping to prevent vendor lock-in is by way of the Deltacloud project which was started back in 2009. The project was moved to The Apache Software Foundation in 2010 as an incubated effort and now it has finally graduated to become a top level project.

Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat said during a press conference that Deltacloud becoming a top level Apache project is a significant milestone.

“It reflects the breadth of the project’s community and the strong, fair governance model around the project,” Crenshaw said. “While Deltacloud was originally started by Red Hat, it is now governed by a strong and independent community.”

Deltacloud is an API for open clouds that enables software to interact with diverse cloud service providers. Crenshaw noted that the slogan for Deltacloud is: out of many clouds, one. As such, he stressed that Deltacloud is a foundation for an open cloud as it enables portability and seamless management of diverse infrastructure. The fact that Deltacloud is an Apache project is also important, as it proves that the open source effort is not an initiative controlled by a single vendor.

Red Hat is including Deltacloud as part of their in-development CloudForms Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. Crenshaw explained that Red Hat takes the upstream Apache Deltacode project code and then tests and certifies the code, to ensure that it’s ready for enterprise customers.

Read the full story at ServerWatch:
Red Hat Graduates Deltacloud for the Open Cloud

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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