Pivotal,
the company setting the new standard for enterprise Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS), today announced it has named Savvis, a CenturyLink
company, to the Cloud Foundry advisory board to help guide the Cloud Foundry
ecosystem as it fosters continued open innovation and community growth.
Following
Pivotal's recent
commitment from IBM to join Cloud Foundry's advisory
board and be a community contributor and CenturyLink's June addition of
fast-growing PaaS provider AppFog to its Savvis
cloud portfolio, the addition of Savvis to the Cloud Foundry advisory board
will enable even more developers and organizations to build the next generation
of applications on the cloud.
"Cloud
Foundry is fast becoming the preeminent open source cloud-independent
Platform-as-a-Service," said Paul Maritz, chief executive officer, Pivotal. "We
are excited to expand our community advisory board today through the addition
of Savvis and look forward to the collaboration ahead."
In
addition to joining the advisory board, Savvis has signed the Cloud Foundry
community contributor license agreement (CCLA), which signifies its commitment
to:
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Expand
contributions to the open source Cloud Foundry community through the addition
of new features and active participation on design documents, reports, bug
fixes and other enhancements;
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Deepen
the relationship between Cloud Foundry and AppFog via the Cloud Foundry Dojo
program, a unique learning experience that brings Savvis' AppFog developers
shoulder-to-shoulder with Pivotal's Cloud Foundry engineering team to master
the core technology and contribute directly to the codebase;
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Serve
as a platinum sponsor of Pivotal's first-ever Platform: The Cloud Foundry
Conference, to be held on Sept. 8 and 9 in Santa Clara, Calif. For more
information, visit www.platformcf.com.
"AppFog
has been an active participant in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem since its
inception," said Lucas Carlson, the founder of AppFog who currently serves as vice
president of cloud evangelism at Savvis. "Now as part of CenturyLink, we have
an exciting opportunity to expand our participation in the Cloud Foundry
ecosystem while promoting the adoption of open-source standards to a wider
developer base."
"We see strong interest among our clients for
private PaaS solutions and believe that Cloud Foundry offers a unique,
open-source solution to meet these requirements," said Andrew Higginbotham,
chief technology officer at Savvis. "We look forward to being a contributor and
strategic adviser for Cloud Foundry so we can help shape the direction of this
open-source PaaS initiative for the benefit of the community and our clients."