Mirantis Launches Open Source Program Office to Double Down on Community Contribution
2024年7月25日 - 1:00AM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Long-time open source advocate Randy Bias to
lead expansion of open source initiatives
Mirantis, providing organizations with total control over their
strategic infrastructure using open source software, today
announced acceleration of its open source strategy and investment,
positioning open source initiatives under a new Open Source Program
Office and hiring Randy Bias as vice president, Open Source
Strategy and Technology.
Mirantis already supports several open source projects
(including k0s, k0smotron, and Lagoon), maintains several more, and
contributes to Kubernetes, and more. Here is more information about
the 25 open source projects where Mirantis is actively
involved.
"Open source has always been the core of Mirantis' business and
the key to delivering transformative cloud technologies that
empower our customers with the flexibility to set their own
direction," said Alex Freedland, CEO, Mirantis. "The office, led by
Randy, will be dedicated to shaping contributions that matter."
"Mirantis has been instrumental in the success of the OpenStack
project over the years and the team continues as a strong advocate
for openly developed software," said Thierry Carrez, general
manager of the Open Infrastructure Foundation. "We congratulate
Mirantis on the establishment of their OSPO and look forward to the
innovation that Mirantis' collaboration with and investment in the
community can deliver."
The Open Source Program Office will focus on fostering community
involvement and engagement through strategic open source projects.
Bias will be responsible for ensuring greater transparency in
Mirantis' open source engagement, and providing internal and
external reporting to hold Mirantis accountable as a responsible
open source citizen.
“More and more, businesses are relying on open source to drive
their critical infrastructure,” said Bias. “Open source has always
been foundational to Mirantis, and we recognize the need for a
deeper investment and commitment to communities that are strategic
to us. Mirantis is reinvesting and hiring in engineering teams that
will focus exclusively on open source contributions and community
development.”
A veteran of open source and cloud computing, Bias has been
involved with several era-defining open source projects and
companies. He was an early leader in the OpenStack community,
serving as an inaugural director of the OpenStack Foundation (now
OpenInfra) and board member from 2012-2014. He also served on the
board of Linux Foundation Networking, and led the Tungsten Fabric
project that today has evolved to OpenSDN. Bias founded the open
cloud computing company Cloudscaling, which was acquired by EMC in
2014 where Bias subsequently drove EMC's first open source product
release.
"I know Randy as an amazing open source advocate and evangelist,
and am looking forward to seeing Randy further Mirantis's already
deep commitment to the community," said Brian Behlendorf, chief AI
strategist for the Linux Foundation.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self-determination
by using open source software to provide complete control over
their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent
automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating
virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
Mirantis enables platform teams to deliver a public-cloud
experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge,
with one cohesive cloud platform for complete application and
operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated
full-stack lifecycle management – all based on open source using
open-standard APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises,
including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and
S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
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