BANGALORE, India and
VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
(OpenStack Summit Booth #T6) – Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a
leading global information technology, consulting and business
process services company, and ActiveState today announced a
partnership to deliver cloud technologies and services to
enterprises across the globe. ActiveState is the creator of
Stackato Private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), the world's leading
independent distribution of the Cloud Foundry open source project.
This partnership brings together the cloud implementation expertise
of Wipro with the cutting edge technology of Stackato, enabling
agile enterprises to innovate faster than ever before.
"Wipro has been an early pioneer of open source based cloud
solutions and we are seeing Stackato emerge as a strong player
providing cloud foundry based PaaS solutions and enabler for Dev
Ops automation. We are excited about this partnership delivered as
a part of our Open Cloud offering and believe that it delivers
unmatched agility, control and security to our customers in their
endeavor to transform their application lifecycle processes. This
joint proposition also dovetails into application workload centric,
software defined and open standard based Open Datacenter framework
envisaged by Wipro," said Anuj
Bhalla, VP & Global BU Head, Product, System Integration
and Maintenance Services, GIS Wipro Ltd.
Stackato, the private PaaS of choice for large enterprises, is
based on the Cloud Foundry and Docker open source projects. It has
been developed, by ActiveState, for use by large enterprises and
addresses their unique business needs such as application
portability and scalability, continuous delivery and cloud
security.
Wipro and ActiveState will work together seamlessly to deliver
integrated cloud solutions to help address the unique challenges
that large businesses face in today's rapidly changing
marketplace.
"Partnering with Wipro expands Stackato's reach around the
world," said Bart Copeland, CEO
of ActiveState. "Wipro helps deliver innovative cloud
technology solutions to companies globally. We have heard
increasing demand from companies around the world for Stackato and
are pleased that this partnership will enable and support that
access."
Resources:
- For more information on the Stackato Partner Program:
http://www.activestate.com/stackato/partners
- Join the Stackato Partner Program here:
http://www.activestate.com/partners/application
- ActiveState Blog: www.activestate.com/blog
- Follow @ActiveState
About ActiveState
Founded in 1997, ActiveState is a
global leader providing software application development and
management solutions. The Company's products include: Stackato, a
commercially supported Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that harnesses
open source technologies such as Cloud Foundry and Docker; dynamic
language distributions ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl; and
developer tools such as the popular Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE.
ActiveState is trusted by customers and partners worldwide, across
many industries including telecommunications, aerospace, software,
financial services and CPG. The Company is proven for the
enterprise: More than two million developers and 97% of
Fortune-1000 companies use ActiveState's solutions to develop,
distribute, and manage their software applications. Global
customers like Bank of America, CA, Cisco, HP, Lockheed Martin and
Siemens rely on ActiveState for faster development, ensuring IT
governance and compliance, and accelerating time to market. To
learn more, visit http://www.activestate.com.
About Wipro Ltd.
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading
Information Technology, Consulting and Business Process Services
company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business
better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes through its deep
industry experience and a 360 degree view of "Business through
Technology" - helping clients create successful and adaptive
businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive
portfolio of services, a practitioner's approach to delivering
innovation, and an organization wide commitment to sustainability,
Wipro has a workforce of over 150,000, serving clients in 175+
cities across 6 continents. For more information, please visit
www.wipro.com.
ActiveState Media
Contacts:
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Michael
Salmassian
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Brent
Smithurst
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Nadel Phelan,
Inc.
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ActiveState
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+1-831-440-2408
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+1-778-558-9321
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michael@nadelphelan.com
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brents@activestate.com
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Wipro Media
Contacts:
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Purnima
Burman
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purnima.burman@wipro.com
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+91 80 39916260
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Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements
Certain
statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects
are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks,
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks
and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not
limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our
earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage
growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain
our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on
fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration,
restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our
international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key
focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability
to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions,
liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the
companies in which we make strategic investments, withdrawal of
fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal
restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside
India, unauthorized use of our
intellectual property, and general economic conditions affecting
our business and industry. Additional risks that could affect our
future operating results are more fully described in our filings
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These
filings are available at www.sec.gov. We may, from time to time,
make additional written and oral forward-looking statements,
including statements contained in the company's filings with the
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