CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com ), the leader in onboarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures, today announced the addition of the Fedora Core 10 operating system to its Elastic Server platform, the company's web-based factory for real-time virtual and cloud server assembly.  The Elastic Server platform lets users assemble custom virtual servers using a point-and-click, self-service interface.  The addition of Fedora as an operating system option gives users the ability to assemble and deploy their custom Fedora Elastic Servers to numerous virtual and cloud environments including Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud™ (EC2).

The Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat and is a collaborative effort between Red Hat® and the open source community. Built exclusively from the latest open source technology, the Fedora operating system is community supported, freely available, and  distributed to millions of systems globally. For more information, visit http://fedoraproject.org/ .

"Adding Fedora to our software factory's options is extremely exciting.  Now we are truly beginning to deliver on our vision of a 'meta packaging system' where software stacks can be described as 'bills of material' that are decoupled from the complexity of execution contexts, such as particular cloud or virtual infrastructure," said Patrick Kerpan, CTO at CohesiveFT.  "Additionally, given the richness and innovation in the application stack communities like Java, Ruby, and PHP, to name just a few, we increasingly can decouple much of the bill of materials from specific operating systems.  This gives our customers tremendous freedom and control over the server designs they need to create for their business."

The Elastic Server platform is a complement to virtualization and cloud offerings. Users assemble custom servers by choosing from a library of popular components. Once assembled, these custom application stacks can be configured to a variety of virtualization and cloud-ready formats, downloaded and deployed in real-time. There are over three thousand users of the service who have assembled more than seven thousand Elastic Server images for public and private use. The addition of the Fedora Core 10 operating system highlights CohesiveFT’s platform momentum following recently introduced support for ElasticHosts, KVM, Virtual Iron, and the Ubuntu operating system.