Cloud Foundry, the open source cloud management software provider, launched a systems integrator programme at its European Summit in Basle, Switzerland this week.
Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, told delegates at the conference: “Our new Certified Systems Integrator Program recognises the engagement of our committed community while enriching the experience of using the Foundry, the largest open source marketplace in existence."
The programme is designed to help integrators, consultancies and professional services organisations highlight their expertise working with Cloud Foundry technologies. These organisations will have demonstrated contributions to the Cloud Foundry community through contributing code, hosting meet-ups, public marketing of the platform and other services to the community.
Certified SIs will receive top-level visibility in the organisation, an official Cloud Foundry Certified SI badge to use in their marketing material and reseller discounts for Cloud Foundry Certified Developer exams.
The Foundation also announced that two new projects - Eirini and CF Containerization - have been accepted as incubating projects by the organisation's Project Management Committees (PMCs), in order to further the interoperability of Cloud Foundry and the increasingly popular open source container orchestration platform Kubernetes.
In addition, IBM, a big backer of the Foundry, used the Basle event to announce the general availability of IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment. This offering allows users to create and manage isolated Cloud Foundry environments for hosting applications exclusively for their organisations. It provides on-demand, self-service provisioning; elastic consumption and complete access to administrative capabilities.
