ActiveState, the dynamic language experts offering solutions for Perl, Python,
Tcl and other web languages, today announced its continued commitment to promote
the development of Stackato, its platform for creating a private PaaS, as a
hypervisor and infrastructure-agnostic platform by joining the Open
Virtualization Alliance (OVA). ActiveState joins leading virtualization and
cloud solution providers in the OVA to foster adoption and promote third-party
solutions around Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as an open virtualization
alternative to proprietary solutions.
"We are very pleased to welcome ActiveState into the Open Virtualization
Alliance (OVA)," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud
Business Unit at Red Hat and a founding member of the Open Virtualization
Alliance. "The support for the Open Virtualization Alliance from industry
leaders and innovators shows the widespread interest in KVM as an open
virtualization alternative. KVM delivers leading performance, scalability and
security, making it a compelling alternative to proprietary virtualization
technologies."
"We built Stackato as a private PaaS solution that doesn't tie companies to
one single infrastructure or hypervisor product. We want to give our customers
flexibility and choice. By joining the Open Virtualization Alliance, we are
proud to show our ongoing commitment to work with the widest array of hypervisor
and infrastructure solutions to provide the options our users are demanding,"
said Bart Copeland, President & CEO at ActiveState.
Stackato is currently in Beta, open to developers and cloud administrators to
try as a micro cloud (VM) or in a sandbox on Amazon EC2. To sign up for the
Stackato beta program: http://www.activestate.com/cloud.