SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Foundry
Foundation, home to open source projects simplifying the developer
experience, today announced that Paul
Fazzone, SVP Tanzu R&D at VMware, has been named
Chairman of the Board of Directors. Fazzone was previously named
treasurer in December 2017. Fazzone
replaces John Roese, Dell EMC global
CTO, who will remain Dell EMC's representative on the Board.
"This next chapter for Cloud Foundry will be a shift
forward in focusing on evolving the technology to a
Kubernetes-based platform and supporting the diverse set of
contributors who will make that outcome possible," said Fazzone.
"In my new role as Chairman of the Board, I look forward to helping
guide the Foundation toward its goal of expanding and bolstering
the ecosystem, its community and its core of users."
The Cloud Foundry Foundation Board of Directors is responsible
for the oversight and management of the Foundation's business
affairs, property and interests, while technical decision-making
authority is vested in the Foundation's various Project Management
Committees and technical project teams.
"We thank John for the indelible mark he has made since joining
the Board," said Chip Childers,
executive director of Cloud Foundry Foundation. "We anticipate
first-rate input and oversight from Paul as we continue to refine
the industry standard developer experience for the cloud native
landscape."
Fazzone is responsible for the company's Kubernetes and
application modernization products and related open source
initiatives. Fazzone led VMware's strategy and execution to support
the cloud native needs of Enterprise application development and
infrastructure platform operation teams (including VMware
acquisitions of Heptio & Pivotal). Fazzone has guided global
product teams to deliver industry's leading network,
virtualization, cloud infrastructure and application development
products for Enterprise and Service Provider customers. Prior to
VMware, Fazzone led product management at Nicira (acquired by
VMware in 2012), and was responsible for data center networking
products at Cisco.
Cloud Foundry is an open source technology backed by the largest
technology companies in the world, including Dell EMC, Google, IBM,
Microsoft, SAP, SUSE and VMware, and is being used by leaders in
manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. Only
Cloud Foundry delivers the velocity needed to continuously deliver
apps at the speed of business. Cloud Foundry's container-based
architecture runs apps in any language on your choice of cloud —
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud,
Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, VMware vSphere, and more. With a robust
services ecosystem and simple integration with existing
technologies, Cloud Foundry is the modern standard for mission
critical apps for global organizations.
About Cloud Foundry Foundation
The Cloud Foundry
Foundation is an independent non-profit open source organization
formed to sustain the development, promotion, and adoption of Cloud
Foundry as the industry standard for delivering the best developer
experiences to companies of all sizes. The Foundation projects
include Cloud Foundry Application Runtime, Cloud Foundry Container
Runtime, BOSH, Open Service Broker API, Eirini, Project Quarks,
Abacus, CF-Local, CredHub, ServiceFabrik, Stratos, and more. Cloud
Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and
scale applications, and is used by more than half the Fortune 500,
representing nearly $15 trillion in
combined revenue. Cloud Foundry is hosted by The Linux Foundation
and is an Apache 2.0 licensed project available on Github:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry. To learn more,
visit: http://www.cloudfoundry.org.
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Joe Eckert
Eckert Communications
jeckert@eckertcomms.com
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