– Joab Jackson, IDG News Service
February 16, 2012
Extending its range of open-source projects to cloud computing, the Apache Software Foundation has approved the Deltacloud as a top-level project, the organization announced Thursday.
First developed by Red Hat in 2009, Deltacloud offers a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) that can be used to interact with multiple cloud service providers. Red Hat submitted Deltacloud to Apache in 2010, and Apache accepted the project in incubator status.
The Apache acceptance “is a significant milestone” for Deltacloud, said Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat vice president and general manager, in a webcast. “It reflects the breadth of the project’s community and the strong and fair governance structure around the project. While it was started by Red Hat, it is governed by an independent community.
Now that it is accepted by Apache as a full top-level project, the Deltacloud project will operate under Apache guidelines and will receive full support from the nonprofit organization.
