HOPKINTON, Mass., March 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Having
reached the rank of second-degree black belt in Shukokai Karate,
I'm acutely aware that martial arts excellence requires an all-in
commitment by students to master strength, flexibility, discipline
and harmony across both body and mind. Like any worthwhile
training, students benefit greatly from a teacher, a sensei,
to impart experience, skill and wisdom. The same holds true in
software and application development. Pupils learn from
masters and advance to create new innovations through the art of
code writing. It is through this timeless method that EMC is
helping develop the next generation of coding black belts and
sensei through the opening of the first Cloud Foundry "Dojo." For
the uninitiated, dojo means "the place of the way" and is a
word commonly used to describe a martial arts training
facility.
EMC has a strong interest and equally strong investment in
hybrid cloud technology, as we believe it will play a huge role in
the end state for IT systems in the not-too-distant future. But in
order for this reality to take shape, an ecosystem of open APIs and
frameworks must be nurtured to overcome one of the biggest hybrid
cloud challenges - making content and applications
portable.
EMC believes that Cloud Foundry represents the industry's best
and most mature cloud abstraction technology, which is the reason
we've become a founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and
why we're moving ahead aggressively to open the first Cloud Foundry
Dojo since the Foundation's inception. The EMC Cambridge Cloud
Foundry Dojo is expected to be fully online this summer. It's
a strategic move by EMC as we look to become a major contributor to
the open source community to help accelerate the industry movement
to a truly portable cloud ecosystem.
Why Cloud Foundry, why now?
Cloud has arguably
had one of the most significant impacts on IT and mobile computing
inside of a very short time period. Like many game-changing
technologies, however, there are early iterations and best
practices that tend to dominate, sometimes lingering long after
their shelf life has expired. Closed cloud frameworks and APIs
(ironically in most "public clouds") are a perfect example as they
lock content and applications into a single cloud model. Open
source platforms like Cloud Foundry hold the key.
While no one expects there to be a uniform architecture for all
clouds, there have to be new technologies that allow for
application and content portability from cloud-to-cloud. To
facilitate this, applications will be deployed thru a cloud
foundry. As one of the leading and fastest-growing cloud
native application platforms, we believe Cloud Foundry is the best
choice for IT.
With an ecosystem built around Cloud Foundry, applications can
be developed once and utilize the infrastructure services of a
range of public and private clouds without tight coupling. This
will drive new levels of flexibility and choice for customers and
create innovation through competition.
Committer status in as little as 6 weeks?
The concept
of the Cloud Foundry Dojo is about rapid learning and development
of applications through "pair programming" that puts software
coders shoulder-to-shoulder with Cloud Foundry gurus for 6-12 week
open source projects designed to breed qualified Cloud Foundry
engineers with "committer" status. It is based on a uniquely West
Coast-oriented agile development program that originated in the
coding Dojo of Pivotal Labs, which EMC acquired in 2012 and is now
part of EMC Federation company Pivotal Software, Inc. As Pivotal
has proven in hundreds of instances with its developer customers,
the Dojo model is an excellent vehicle where deep expertise can be
established to anchor the technical ecosystem.
The EMC Dojo will be co-located in the same Kendall Square building in Cambridge that currently houses EMC's top
technologists who are working on open systems software (OpenStack,
Docker, etc.) as well as advanced technologies such as flash and
hybrid cloud. The area is also soaked with a network of engineering
talent in nearby MIT, Microsoft NERD
and Pivotal Labs, where innovation and modern application
development is taking place.
Today the Cloud Foundry Foundation is looking for its member
companies to develop a strong Dojo model to get a critical mass of
software coders developing applications on Cloud Foundry. EMC is
proud to be the first company to open a Dojo in partnership with
the independent Cloud Foundry Foundation.
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