Huawei Joins Cloud Foundry Foundation
Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the leading open source cloud native application platform, today announced that Huawei is joining the independent open source organization. As part of its overall cloud computing, big data and IoT strategy, Huawei Platform as a Service (PaaS), based on Cloud Foundry and other open source technologies, will power Huawei public cloud services for cloud native application developers. Huawei public cloud is to be launched later this year. With an open source PaaS platform, Huawei aims to help its telecom and enterprise customers improve their business time-to-market and innovation cycles in the new cloud era. This, in turn, will allow Huawei customers to be more competitive.
"We are committed to the open source software architecture that drives innovation to cloud oriented communication, networking and IT services and/or solutions for our customers and partners," said Ying Xiong, Chief PaaS Architect at Huawei. "Today we are joining Cloud Foundry Foundation, an open source community with the strongest open source platform for cloud native apps. We are excited to work with the community to help bring real business value to our customers through open innovation."
Huawei has always been an active supporter of open source communities and technologies including ongoing work with Linux, Hadoop and Docker communities. As a Cloud Foundry corporate member, Huawei looks forward to working with Cloud Foundry Foundation members in collaboratively building a stronger ecosystem of developers, ISVs, cloud service providers, etc. With its rich experience in the telecom and networking industry, Huawei is committed to help building an open and robust technology platform by working with the open source community.
"Huawei is an outstanding leader among a growing number of businesses who view open source, open architecture and open ecosystem as a strategic priority," said Cloud Foundry CEO Sam Ramji. "Their contributions to the Foundation will not only help strengthening the Cloud Foundry platform, but most importantly help build the Cloud Foundry community in China."
Huawei and other members are joining Cloud Foundry Foundation are at the Cloud Foundry Summit today and tomorrow in Santa Clara, Calif. 1,400 application developers, IT operations experts, technical managers, business leaders, service providers and project contributors are gathered in an independent forum to accelerate and advance the Cloud Foundry open source project.
