Hello again! As promised, please review the initial draft below and forward any comments/corrections/additions.
Hugo, I'd also love a quote from you, as well as any supporting quotes from the community (let's limit this to no more than 3-5). Thanks in advance for your help with this. - Sally + copying [email protected] as well as [email protected] to keep everyone in the loop. I'd like to move the final editing process over to press@ once comments/quotes are received. = = = The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.4 Mature, easy-to-deploy Open Source IaaS Cloud computing software platform now more efficient, with improved storage, monitoring, resource scheduling, virtualization, and performance. Forest Hill, MD –NN August 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.4, the mature, Open Source turnkey software platform used for creating Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in private-, public-, and hybrid cloud environments. "QUOTE," said Hugo Trippaers, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. "MORE FROM HUGO." Apache CloudStack users power billions of dollars' worth of business transactions annually across their clouds, and has become the Open Source platform for many service providers to set up on-demand, elastic public cloud computing services, as well as enterprises to set up a private or hybrid cloud for use by their own employees. In addition, CloudStack is available to individuals and organizations that wish to study and implement an IaaS for personal, educational, and/or production use. Lauded by Gartner Group as "a solid product", CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack entered the Apache Incubator in April 2012 and became an Apache Top-level Project in March 2013. CloudStack v4.4 reflects dozens of new features and improvements, including root disk resize and storage management, support for DRS VMware and Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, Virtual Router notification, and 135 bug fixes, as detailed in the release notes http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/latest/ CloudStack is in use/production at Alcatel-Lucent, ASG, Autodesk, BT Cloud, Bechtle AG, China Telecom, Cloudera, DataPipe, Dell, Digital China Advanced Systems, Disney, Edmunds.com, Exoscale, GreenQloud, Hokkaido University, Huawei, IDC Frontier, Ikoula, Juniper Networks, KDDI, KT/Korea Telecom, Kyuden Infocom, Kyushu University, LeaseWeb, MCPc, Microland Ltd, Nokia, NTT, NVision Group, Orange, PCextreme, PPTV, Safe Swiss Cloud, Schuberg Philis, ShapeBlue, Shopzilla, Slovak Telekom, SolidFire Storage, Stratosec, SunGard AS, Taiwan Mobile, Targus Technologies, Tata, Trader Media Group, TrendMicro/TCloud Computing, TomTom, University of Melbourne, University of Sao Paolo, Verizon, WebMD, Zenoss, and Zynga, among others. [@@CLOSING QUOTE FROM HUGO.] Catch Apache CloudStack in action at the 20th Japan CloudStack User Group MeetUp (Osaka Prefecture; 1 August 2014 @cloudstackja, http://lanyrd.com/2014/csstudy20/) and CloudStack Collaboration Conference, the official user/developer conference of the Apache CloudStack community (Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 November 2014). For more information and to register, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-europe and follow @CCCEU14 on Twitter. Availability and Oversight CloudStack v4.4 is available immediately as a free download from http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. As with all Apache products, Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and 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. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and @CloudStack on Twitter. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 450 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. 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All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # [MEDIA CONTACT -SALLY] >________________________________ > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> >To: Daan Hoogland <[email protected]>; Giles Sirett ><[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; >Pierre-Luc Dion <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 28 July 2014, 10:06 >Subject: Re: press release for 4.4 > > > >Thanks so much for the suggestion, Daan. > > >I can start drafting something this week. > >Kind regards, >Sally > >= = = = = >vox +1 617 921 8656 >skype sallykhudairi > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Daan Hoogland <[email protected]> >>To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Giles Sirett >><[email protected]> >>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; >>Pierre-Luc Dion <[email protected]> >>Sent: Monday, 28 July 2014, 4:06 >>Subject: press release for 4.4 >> >> >>Sally et al, >> >>The vp asked me if I could arrange with you to create a press release >>that will be inviting to write articles. Pierre-Luc's release notes >>should help with that. I can assist but am not the person to do this. >> >>-- >>Daan >> >> >> > >
