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March 28, 2012

GigaSpaces Introduces CloudifyCommunity Open Source Project

GigaSpaces Technologies has introduced CloudifySource Community, an open source product allowing organizations to manage applications without making any changes to code.

CloudifySource Community supports most cloud platforms and is built using GitHub pages, Disqus and ZenDesk. Users can contribute to the project’s source code, vote on the project’s development road map and suggest new features, share recipes and common application stacks and contribute to design, documentation, blog and webinars.

“We enabled the forking of not only the Cloudify open source product’s code from GitHub, but also the entire community itself,” said Uri Cohen, VP Product Management at GigaSpaces (News - Alert) “We really hope to leverage the developer user-base to enrich the user experience and ecosystem.”

The company is also demoing CloudifySource using a variety of platforms, including MongoDB, Cassandra and Tomcat. Customers can choose from a variety of cloud hosting providers, including Amazon, RackSpace, OpenStack and CloudStack, via HP Cloud Services.

“Until now the information on setting up an application environment that includes the development, pre-production and production environments was scattered in various papers, scripts, groups, and plainly in people’s heads. Cloudify consolidates all this into a single simple and readable recipe,” Cohen said.

“The Cloudify community was set up with this purpose in mind, to facilitate these activities, as has proven quite successful with similar communities, such as the DevOps community for Chef, and Big Data and NoSQL communities like Cassandra, and MongoDB,” he added.

Users interested in CloudifySource can download it by forking the project on GitHub.




Edited by Braden Becker
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