>> NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/Gv6

Open Source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework brings enterprise-grade 
service, governance, security, and performance to private-, public-, and hybrid 
clouds

Forest Hill, MD –3 June 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source 
projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache Stratos has graduated 
from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that 
the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's 
meritocratic process and principles. 

"Apache Stratos graduation is an indicator of the project adhering to Apache 
Way of Open Communities and endorses meritocratic participation," said Suresh 
Marru, ASF Member and Apache Stratos Incubation Mentor.

Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework 
that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended 
to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. For 
developers, Stratos provides a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, 
and running scalable applications. IT providers benefit from high utilization 
rates, automated resource management, and platform-wide insight including 
monitoring and billing. 

Originally developed by WSO2, Stratos entered the Apache Incubator in June 
2013, and currently has code contributions from dozens of individuals 
representing Cisco, Citrix, Indiana University, and the NASA Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory among other organizations. 

"Donating Stratos to the Apache Incubator has been a great success: we have 
added significant new capabilities to the technology and at the same time the 
community has really grown," said Lakmal Warusawithana, Vice President of 
Apache Stratos, and Director of Cloud Architecture at WSO2. 

Stratos brings self-service management, elastic scaling, multi-tenant 
deployment, usage monitoring, as well as additional capabilities, such as the 
ability to take any server software to run "as-a-Service" alongside other app 
containers. Apache Stratos deploys onto Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) such 
as Amazon EC2, OpenStack, SUSECloud, VMWare vCloud and many more. 

In addition, the Project has announced the release of Apache Stratos v4.0. 
Improvements include the ability to: 

1. Map into underlying datacenter infrastructure and create policies (called 
"partitions"): this unique functionality goes beyond other PaaS infrastructures 
to make Stratos truly enterprise class; 

2. Plug in third-party load balancers such as HAProxy that provides pure TCP 
load balancing; and 

3. Support real-time complex event processing for autoscaling: Stratos can take 
any available data on load and usage including on-VM CPU load, network and 
memory usage, together with data from the load-balancer and pipe this into a 
powerful real-time event processing engine. 

Apache Stratos is used by leading organizations building connected ecosystems 
in aerospace, telecommunication, and construction industries. Stratos powers 
one of the world’s largest aviation companies' digital airline initiative to 
re-invent supply chain logistics.  Leading network infrastructure providers are 
integrating Apache Stratos to deliver advanced telecommunication services to 
their client base while maintaining telco-grade reliability and availability 
under peak load.  A construction and engineering equipment provider is using 
Apache Stratos to build a multi-tenant cloud solution that can tailor policies 
and rules to specific niche markets. 

"The successful incubation of Stratos and graduation to an Apache top-level 
project is a significant step for this project," said Scott Yow, Vice President 
of product management at Cisco. "The addition of the partitioning and complex 
autoscaling capabilities in Stratos 4.0 are critical to service provider-grade 
deployments. The  disaster recovery and high-availability support provide the 
foundation for a 99.999-plus percent platform and is a significant improvement 
to Stratos, which we applaud." 

"Apache Stratos has a much broader focus than most other PaaS environments, 
giving me much more flexibility when architecting cloud solutions," said Chris 
Snow, Solution Architect in the UK Mobile Banking sector. "Stratos 4 is a major 
evolution of the architecture and is a huge credit to the dedicated and 
passionate community that are driving this project." 

"We are considering Apache Stratos to build Science Gateway Platform Services 
(http://scigap.org/) for the computational science community," explained Marru, 
who is also a Principal Systems Architect at Indiana University. 

"We've shown that not only do we get the 'Apache Way' as a community, but that 
it has had a real impact on improving the code. I'm really excited that we have 
become a fully fledged Apache project and the release of Stratos 4.0 brings a 
whole range of new capabilities. This is an exciting time for Stratos," added 
Warusawithana. 

Availability and Oversight 
As with all Apache products, Apache Stratos software is released under the 
Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active 
contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the 
Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product 
releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Stratos, 
visit http://stratos.apache.org/ 

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) 
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one 
hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server 
--the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic 
process known as "The Apache Way," more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 
Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available 
enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of 
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community 
actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and 
ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The 
ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations 
and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, 
Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt 
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and
Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on 
Twitter. 

"Apache", "Stratos", "Apache Stratos", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The 
Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of 
their respective owners. 

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