Red Hat Ramps Up Open Source Cloud Projects

“The cloud isn’t just another word for basic application hosting
on a single remote server. The cloud involves the notion of
distributed assets that are highly available and scalable. It’s a
technical paradigm that has inspired Linux vendor Red Hat to launch
new open source projects to develop novel infrastructure and
applications for the cloud.

“Today during Red Hat’s (NASDAQ: RHT) Open Source Cloud
Computing Forum, software engineers from the company revealed a
number of initiatives under development for application deployment,
database scaling and storage that meet the distributed needs that
cloud infrastructures demand.

“On the application platform side of the cloud, Red Hat is
developing the BoxGrinder project. JBoss Fellow Bob McWhirter
explained during the forum that one of the goals of BoxGrinder is
to make is easy to grind out server configurations for a variety of
virtualization fabrics.”

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