White Source Offers New Integration with OpenShift by Red Hat

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 06, 2012

White Source, the leading provider of SaaS Open Source Lifecycle Management solutions, announced today the release of a new integration with OpenShift by Red Hat. The new integration enables software developers to automatically detect the addition of a new open source component, automate the decision process according to the customers open source software (OSS) policies, and keep their OSS inventory up to date. White Source Open Source Lifecycle Management allows customers to increase productivity, while mitigating legal, business, and technical risks. The integration adds to the recently released Maven integration, and the open source JNinka scanner, providing companies of all sizes with the most convenient and cost-effective solution to address their open source license management needs.

White Source provides a comprehensive, yet simple to use, and very affordable solution for companies that need to manage their open source assets and ensure license compliance in order to avoid pitfalls such as lawsuits, penalties and lost business. Developers and managers use White Sources free cloud-based solution to track, audit and report on open source components throughout the software development lifecycle.

OpenShift is Red Hat’s Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. OpenShift takes care of all the infrastructure, middleware, and management and allows the developer to focus on designing and coding applications.

The OpenShift platform has made its mark on the PaaS industry over the past year, by offering comprehensive lifecycle support for Java in the cloud. The new Integration strengths this Java support and enables OpenShift users to also easily and automatically manage their open source components using White Source service – without any overhead.

“RedHat’s OpenShift is an exemplary and obvious integration for White Source. It is a leading platform, used by top organizations worldwide. The new integration enables OpenShift users to reduce the OSS reporting burden from developers, by automatically and continuously monitoring newly added open source components,” said White Source CEO Rami Sass.

To start using White Source with OpenShift, see details at:

http://docs.whitesourcesoftware.com/display/serviceDocs/OpenShift+Itegration

White Source Software is a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution for managing open source licenses. White Source offers a lightweight free package that includes all basic functions. In addition, it offers a paid premium package which includes more advanced features, starting at $ 200 a month. To register for the service or for more information, visit http://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/

OpenShift is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, taking a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.

About White Source

White Source is the leading provider of SaaS solution for Open Source Lifecycle Management that is comprehensive, yet easy to use, and very affordable. Our solution enable companies of all sizes to fully realize the advantages of open source software, while mitigating the legal, business and technical risks. The White Source solution features a dynamic repository of information about Open Source modules and their licenses that keeps users informed about the latest legal and technical issues. Our patent pending process automation technology makes it easy to implement the best practices for open source usage and to make the right decisions for the organization. Founded in 2011 by experts in business process automation, compliance and security, White Source is a privately held company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit White Source Open Source License Management at http://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/

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OW2 Demonstrates CompatibleOne The Open Source Cloud Broker at Cloud Expo West

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) November 05, 2012

OW2, the global open source infrastructure software community launches today at Cloud Expo West, in Santa Clara, CA. CompatibleOne, The Open Source Cloud Broker. CompatibleOne is a new-generation cloud resource management and automatic provisioning software environment powered by service brokering capabilities.

With CompatibleOne, the seamless federation of heterogeneous resources across different Cloud Service Providers is now possible. With CompatibleOne, developers and users can combine different services available from different suppliers to address their most stringent requirements.

CompatibleOne supports all kinds of resources, not just infrastructure ones but any resource which can be invoked as a service. CompatibleOne helps developers and users avoid vendor lock-in, enforce SLAs and reduce costs. The CompatibleOne open source broker is an open source collaborative project based on open standards, notably OCCI.

Demonstrations presented at Cloud Expo West include:

Customer specific SLA delivery: This demonstration shows cloud how CompatibleOne enables services arbitration and multi-tenancy in a context of stringent customer requirement.
Fully automated provisioning: This demonstration shows how the CompatibleOne platform manages selective placement on a multi-cloud environment and resource aggregation across different providers.

Auto scalability: This demonstration reveals how CompatibleOne leverages load-balancing mechanisms to automatically adjust its resource provisioning to changes in workload.

Commercial provisioning: This demonstration shows how the CompatibleOne platform can organize service delivery across heterogeneous commercially available cloud technologies starting with OpenStack, Amazon and Azure.

Energy efficiency: This demonstration exhibits live energy monitoring of resources provisioned by CompatibleOne and shows how to support energy aware and energy efficient cloud components.

The CompatibleOne cloud service broker marks the beginning of a new era in cloud computing says Bruno Pinna, Director of Cloud Computing at Bull, As companies start to consume cloud services out of networks of federated clouds, optimizing workload placement based on business policies, we expect the CompatibleOne cloud service broker to become a key component of the cloud architectures that will deliver such federated services he adds.

”The launch of CompatibleOne is an exciting milestone for Prologue. We are fully committed to supporting this breakthrough technology says George Seban, the CEO of OW2 Corporate Member Prologue, We are already integrating it as the de facto brokering engine in CloudPort, our legacy-to-cloud application migration environment” he adds.

The CompatibleOne project is open to all, its software will be made available to the global open source community through the OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative (OCSi). The OSCi is the vehicle through which participants from all over the world can join in the action.

Visit CompatibleOne at Cloud Expo West, booth #915 and attend the presentation Next-Generation Cloud Management: The Cloud Service Broker by Iain James Marshall & Jean-Pierre Laisn

OW2 Demonstrates CompatibleOne The Open Source Cloud Broker at Cloud Expo West