New Members Join Linux Foundation 

The Linux Foundation today announced that Autonomic Resources, Bloombase, BlueCat Networks, op5, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, Scale Computing and 6WIND are joining the organization.

Representing a variety of cloud-enabling technologies, The Linux Foundation’s newest members will maximize their investments in collaborative development by participating in the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), which recently became a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation and works to promote Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

The OVA Collaborative Project receives finance, legal, operations and advocacy support from The Linux Foundation, which allows the Alliance to focus on its goals to increase awareness, adoption, interoperability and best practices for KVM.

As an alternative to expensive, proprietary virtualization solutions, OVA members believe KVM and open source are essential to the cloud services of the future.

“The development of open virtualization welcomes participation from a broad number of contributors who are able to test and incorporate new technology faster than a single proprietary virtualization vendor ever could,” said Amanda McPherson, Vice President of Marketing, The Linux Foundation. “With data centers nearly filled to capacity, virtualization and cloud computing have never been more important. The OVA consortium is committed to accelerating KVM as an open, flexible, and highly scalable virtualization technology primed for enterprise adoption.”