Mature, easy-to-deploy Open Source Cloud computing software platform boasts improved efficiency and performance.
The Apache CloudStack project announced the immediate availability of Apache CloudStack v4.4.3, the latest version of the turnkey Open Source cloud computing software platform used for creating private-, public-, and hybrid cloud environments. Apache CloudStack clouds enable billions of dollars' worth of business transactions annually across their clouds, and its maturity and stability has led it to has become the Open Source platform for many service providers to set up on-demand, elastic public cloud computing services, as well as enterprises and others to set up a private or hybrid cloud for use by their own employees. "While working hard on a new release we managed to backport many stabilizing fixes to this maintenance release. Both for 4.5 and the next version work is going hard and I am happy that we managed to bring out this fix release for users of prior versions." Daan Hoogland, member of the Apache CloudStack Project Management Committee and release manager for version 4.4. Lauded by Gartner Group, CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack v4.4.3 reflects dozens of fixes A complete overview of all new enhancements can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.4.3/ CloudStack has been used by thousands of organizations worldwide and is in use/production at Alcatel-Lucent, Autodesk, BT Cloud, China Telecom, DATACAENTER Services, DataPipe, Edmunds.com, Exoscale, GreenQloud, Hokkaido University, IDC Frontier, Ikoula, KDDI, KT/Korea Telecom, LeaseWeb, NTT, Orange, PCextreme, Schuberg Philis, Shopzilla, Slovak Telekom, SunGard AS, Taiwan Mobile, Tata, Trader Media Group, TomTom, University of Melbourne, University of Sao Paolo, Verizon, WebMD and Zynga, among others. CloudStack originated at Cloud.com, which was acquired by Citrix in 2011. CloudStack was submitted to the Apache Incubator in April 2012 and graduated as an Apache Software Foundation Top-level Project in March 2013. Availability CloudStack v4.4.3 is available immediately as a free download from http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0. Governance and Oversight Apache CloudStack 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. Get Involved! Apache CloudStack welcomes contribution and community participation through mailing lists as well as attending face-to-face MeetUps, developer trainings, and user events. Catch CloudStack in action at the CloudStack Days CloudStack Days Tokyo 2015, 2nd June 2015, http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-tokyo CloudStack Days Seattle 2015 , 20th August 2015, http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-seattle and CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2015 in Dublin, 8th and 9th of October 2015, http://cloudstackcollab.org -- Daan
