| By Glenn Rossman |
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| July 27, 2011 08:00 AM EDT |
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Convirture, maker of virtualization management software, announced on Tuesday that it has joined the OpenStack initiative to contribute its resources and expertise to help move the project along and make it a success. The OpenStack initiative was designed to create freely available code, standards, and common ground for the benefit of both cloud providers and cloud customers.
Convirture is the company behind ConVirt, which is sophisticated, enterprise-grade software for managing virtualization and private-cloud environments based on open platforms such as Linux, Xen and KVM. The software is available both as free ConVirt Open Source, as well as a commercial version, ConVirt Enterprise, which adds advanced automation and scalability features.
OpenStack is an open source community backed by more than 75 participating organizations around the globe, many of which are contributing development resources, building products with or are deploying on the open source platform.
"We are huge believers in making open source software available to benefit users," said Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture. "We recognize OpenStack is an important effort to propel consumers of cloud computing with freely available open source software and look forward to working with this industry group."
About Convirture
Convirture was founded in 2006 to help organizations effectively manage open source virtualization platforms. More information is available at www.convirture.com.
Glenn Rossman has more than 25 years communications experience working at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with startup StorageApps, plus agencies Hill & Knowlton and G&A Communications. His experience includes media relations, industry and financial analyst relations, executive communications, intranet and employee communications, as well as producing sales collateral. In technology, his career includes work in channel partner communications, data storage technologies, server computers, software, PC and UNIX computers, along with specific industry initiatives such as manufacturing, medical, and finance.
Before his latest stint in technology, Glenn did business-to-business public relations on behalf of the DuPont Company for its specialty polymers products and with the largest steel companies in North America in an initiative focused on automakers.
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