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2018-02-12 12:33 GMT+01:00 Rohit Yadav <ro...@apache.org>: > The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v4.11 > > Mature Open Source Enterprise Cloud platform powers billions of dollars in > transactions for the world's largest Cloud providers. > > Wakefield, MA —12 February 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open > Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® CloudStack® v4.11, > the latest version of the turnkey enterprise Cloud orchestration platform. > > Apache CloudStack is the proven, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy IaaS > platform used for rapidly creating private, public, and hybrid Cloud > environments. Thousands of large-scale public Cloud providers and > enterprise organizations use Apache CloudStack to enable billions of > dollars worth of business transactions annually across their clouds. > > "This is another great release," said Wido den Hollander, Vice President of > Apache CloudStack. "The community has worked very hard to develop great new > features and many enhancements to CloudStack. Together we are making the > project better every single day." > > Apache CloudStack v4.11 features more than 250 new capabilities, such as > improved integration, stability, storage, networking support, and > performance. Highlights include: > > new Host HA framework with an HA provider for KVM powered clouds; > new certificate authority framework to support ongoing work in container & > application clusters; > integration with Prometheus; > a connector for Cloudian Hyperstore S3 storage; > deeper integration with Nuage SDN; and > Layer 2 Networking capabilities. > > The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack- > release-notes/en/4.11.0.0/ > > "This release has been driven by the people operating CloudStack clouds,” > said Rohit Yadav, Apache CloudStack v4.11 Release Manager. "I would like to > thank the contributors across all of these organizations for supporting > this release, which reflects both the user-driven nature of our community > and the Apache CloudStack project's commitment to continue to be the most > stable, easily deployable, scalable Open Source platform for IaaS. Along > with great new features, v4.11 brings several important structural changes > such as better support for systemd and Java 8, migration to embedded Jetty, > and a new and optimized Debian 9 based systemvm template." > > Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, > including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. > Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud Adoption > report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service provider > clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A list of known > Apache CloudStack users are available at > http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html > > "Apache CloudStack release 4.11 has impressive new content," said Kris > Sterckx, CloudStack development lead at Nuage Networks. "More than any > previous release, v4.11 leverages the value of Nuage Networks SDN with > Nuage 5.0 support, SDN managed networks, per-interface DHCP options support > and automation support for migrating deployed Apache CloudStack clouds from > traditional Linux bridge networking to SDN/OVS based networking." > > "At Interoute, we depend on Apache Cloudstack to help us deliver innovative > and reliable IaaS services to our global customers," said Alex Mattioli, > Chief Cloud Architect at Interoute. "The functionality in the 4.11 release > shows that Cloudstack continues to be the most operator-focused IaaS > platform available for large service providers, with a development > community who are able to quickly develop what the market wants. Many of > the features in this release have been created directly based on the needs > of Interoute and our customers." > > "Apache CloudStack 4.11 continues to bring innovative features and > functionality to market through collaborative Open Source development," > said Simon Weller, Director of Technology at Education Networks America. > "We're particularly excited by the Host-HA framework, which brings a much > greater level of hypervisor automation to KVM based service providers." > > "Feedback from our community helps us solve real-world problems and > strengthens our development process," added den Hollander. "I look forward > to Apache CloudStack users and developers continuing to work closely > together to make future releases even better!" > > Catch Apache CloudStack in action 28 February 2018 at the German CloudStack > Meetup in Frankfurt. > > Availability and Oversight > Apache CloudStack 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 > downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache > CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and > https://twitter.com/CloudStack > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 > 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 680 individual Members and 6,500 > Committers across six continents 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 Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget > Direct, Capital One, Cash Store, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, > Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, iSIGMA, ODPi, LeaseWeb, > Microsoft, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, > Union Investment, and Yahoo. For more information, visit > http://apache.org/ > and https://twitter.com/TheASF > > © The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "CloudStack", "Apache > CloudStack", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the > Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All > other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. >
