Verizon joins Cloud Foundry community advisory board

NEW YORK, USA: Pivotal, the company at the intersection of big data, PaaS and agile development, recently announced that Verizon Enterprise Solutions has joined the Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board to help accelerate the adoption of Cloud Foundry by developers and enterprises.

This announcement supports Verizon's plan to add enterprise-class PaaS services to the new Verizon Cloud - creating an ecosystem of enterprise technologies clients can choose from to develop their environments. Verizon clients will be able to use Cloud Foundry to build cloud-based software and applications to more effectively run their business.

Verizon has signed the Cloud Foundry community contributor license agreement (CCLA) and is working in concert with other contributors to drive open governance. The company has also committed engineering resources to the Cloud Foundry open source project.

"Cloud Foundry has enjoyed tremendous momentum over the past five months as enterprises and developers realize that it truly is the enterprise PaaS of choice," said James Waters, head of product at Pivotal and Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board member. "We look forward to having Verizon's contribution, especially given its considerable talent and expertise, to our board and community."

Verizon is developing an ecosystem of enterprise technologies that will be specifically built to run on Verizon's new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform. The goal is to bring the full power and functionality of enterprise-class technology to the cloud while also giving clients control and flexibility over their environment.

"Verizon is committed to working with best-in-class technology companies to develop an ecosystem of enterprise-level, cloud-based services that run on Verizon Cloud and move businesses forward," said John Harrobin, chief marketing officer, Verizon Enterprise Solutions.

"Pivotal has been great stewards of the Cloud Foundry open source project and by joining the community advisory board and adopting Cloud Foundry for Verizon Cloud, we will make it easy for our clients to fully leverage Verizon Cloud to speed up application delivery and dynamically scale those applications to meet business demand."