{"id":8310,"date":"2022-03-07T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:40:13","slug":"vmware-is-now-a-platinum-sponsor-of-the-apache-software-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/vmware-is-now-a-platinum-sponsor-of-the-apache-software-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Is Now A Platinum Sponsor Of The Apache Software Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apache.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apache Software Foundation <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ASF) has welcomed its new sponsor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/in.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">VMware<\/a> at the Platinum level. The ASF is a US 501(c) (3) non-profit charitable organization that aims at open-source software development. Some hosting and cloud leading companies like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pheonixNAP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaseweb<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alibaba Cloud<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS support ASF<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Apache Software Foundation was founded in the year 1999 and is now the world\u2019s biggest open-source foundation, stewarding 227 million lines of code and offering more than $22 billion in free software to the public. The ASF has volunteer software engineers and specialists from all across the world, that have valuable contributions to the development of hundreds of software applications including <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apache CloudStack<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hadoop<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cassandra<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apache HTTP Web Server<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Down Foster, the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware said, \u201cASF has some of the most important open-source projects under its name. VMware customers can easily build and deploy a wide range of products using Apache HTTP, Tomcat, and Geode\u201d. He further added, \u201cthe company is very delighted to support ASF with their sponsorship, and in addition, their team members are now making to projects like Apache Geode\u201d. He says, \u201cit is very important to support a neutral foundation like the ASF that creates a level playing field for open-source projects where all companies and experts can collaborate as equals\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><b>Apache Projects Undertaken\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VMware is joining the following organizations:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>ASF Sponsors \u2013<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Platinum level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, Namebase, Pineapple Fund, Tencent Cloud, and Yahoo!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Gold level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Cloudera, Confluent, IBM, Indeed, Union Investment, and Workday<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Silver level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Capital One, Comcast, Didi Chuxing, Red Hat, Replicated, Talend, and Target<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Bronze level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bestecasinobonussen.nl, Cafe24, Cerner, Crafter CMS, Curity, Goread.io Followers, GridGain, HotWax Systems, LeoVegas Indian Online Casino, Miro-Kredit AG, Paf, PureVPN, RX-M, RenaissanceRe, Sentry, Software Guru DevRel, also the Technology Innovation Institute, The Blog Starter, Twitter, and Writers Per Hour<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Targeted Sponsors \u2013\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Platinum level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudBees, DLA Piper, Fastly, GitHub, JetBrains, JFrog, Leaseweb, Microsoft, OSU Open Source Labs, Sonatype, and Yahoo!;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Gold level<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Atlassian, Datadog, DinoSource, Docker, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phoen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ixNAP<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Silver level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotwax Systems, Instaclustr, Rackspace, Xiaomi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>At Bronze level\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education Networks of America, Friend of Apache Cordova, Google, Hopsie, No-IP, PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation, Sonic.net, SURFnet, and Virtru<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASF Vice President Fundraising said, \u201cthey are happy to welcome VMware as their Platinum Sponsor. They are also grateful for VMware\u2019s generosity as it will help them to fulfil their mission of providing software for the public good\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 id=\"047b\" class=\"ht hu dt hv b hw hx hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq dl eq\"><em>If you enjoyed reading this news, you are surely going to cherish these too \u2013<\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/lessons-for-india-from-russia-ukraine-crisis\/\">Lessons for India from Russia-Ukraine Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/netscout-launched-ngeniusedge-server\/\">NETSCOUT Launched nGeniusEDGE Server<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostingseekers.com\/blog\/sparkle-deploys-junipers-400g-platform\/\">IP Services Provider Sparkle Deploys Juniper\u2019s 400G Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has welcomed its new sponsor VMware at the Platinum level. 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