Brussels, Belgium – June 5th, 2015 –  PaaSage, a large scale European research initiative for developing an open and integrated platform to support model based lifecycle management of Cloud applications for software and service providers and OW2, the Open Source community for infrastructure software, today announce a strategic partnership. 

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The OCCIware R&D Collaborative project will be publicly presented for the first time at Cloud Expo Europe, March 11-12 in London

Paris, France, March 10, 2015 -  OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and application platforms announces today the launch of OCCIware, a new R&D collaborative project that will be presented at Cloud Expo Europe in London. 

Started in December 2014, the OCCIware project will develop the ultimate framework to model, design, deploy and run any kind of computing resources as a service. It will leverage the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) recommendation from Open Grid Forum (OGF). 

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For the first time at Cloud Expo Europe, a special area and conference track is dedicated to the latest trends in Open Cloud technologies.

Paris, France, March 4, 2015 - OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and application platforms announces the program of its third Open Cloud Forum by OW2, that will be part of the Open Cloud Park conference program at Cloud Expo Europe in London.
The Open Cloud Forum by OW2 Series are events dedicated to promoting open source cloud projects and interoperability between open standard-based cloud solutions. As Educational Sponsor of Cloud Expo Europe 2015, OW2 contributes to the program of the Open Cloud Park.

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OW2 Announces AppHub the European Open Source Market Place

AppHub, the European Open Source Market Place, will be demonstrated for the first time at Cloudscape VII in Brussels

Paris, France, February 18, 2015 - OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and application platforms announces today the launch of AppHub, the European Open Source Market Place. AppHub offers a unique dissemination resource tailored for European R&D collaborative projects.

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The Ville de Paris joins OW2 to accelerate the promotion of its flagship software Lutece

By joining OW2 the Ville de Paris confirms its support of Free/Libre Open Source software and its commitment to enhance the dissemination of Lutece its web application development software

Paris, 4 December 2014. OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and application platforms, and the City of Paris announce today that the Council of Paris voted the City of Paris registration to OW2 on its November 18. By joining OW2, the City of Paris confirms its support to Free/Libre Open Source solutions and its commitment to enhance the visibility of Lutece, its open source software.

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La communauté open source OW2 annonce le palmarès des OW2con'14 Best Project Awards

Les projets erOCCI, LemonLDAP, SpagoBI et Talend MDM sont les lauréats des OW2con'14 Best Project Awards

Paris, 10 novembre, 2014 — OW2, la communauté internationale pour le middleware et les plates-formes applicatives open source annonce le résultat des OW2con'14 Best Project Awards. Organisés pour la troisième fois cette année, les OW2con Best Project Awards distinguent quatre projets open source innovants ou implémentations réussies de technologies open source. Les trophées décernés récompensent la meilleure innovation, le projet le plus communautaire et la plus belle réussite sur le marché ; à ces distinctions s'ajoute un prix spécial du Technology Council. 

• Innovation Award: erOCCI
• Community Award: LemonLDAP
• Market Award: SpagoBI
• Technology Council Special Prize: Talend Master Data Management (MDM)

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The XLcloud High Performance Cloud Computing Platform Demonstrated for the First Time at OpenStack Summit

OW2 launches XLcloud, an OpenStack-based cloud for HPC applications OpenStack Summit

Paris, November 3th , 2014 – OW2, the global open source infrastructure software community launches today at OpenStack Summit in Paris the XLcloud project.
The XLcloud project strives to establish the demonstration of a High Performance Cloud Computing (HPCC) platform based on OpenStack, that is designed to run a representative set of compute intensive workloads, including interactive games, interactive simulations and 3D graphics. The project is developing five use cases that together provide a demonstration of XLcloud's extensive capabilities. 

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Open Source Week in Paris

The Open Source Week in Paris delivers Four Events focused on Open Technologies ready for the Market,
State of the Art Open Source Hardware and Software Solutions, Best Practices and lots of Networking Opportunities.

Paris, 2 October 2014. During one week, from 30 Oct. to 7 Nov. 2014, Paris will be right at the heart of the open source world. The first Open Source Week, will illustrate the growing influence of open source technologies in the IT industry at large, from open hardware to software engineering, cloud computing and data centers.

France is a leading country in open source software adoption and contribution. The annual turnover for the French open source software market will be 4 billion Euros in 2014, of which roughly 1/3 is concentrated in the Paris Region. More that 100 pure players in open source, open hardware and open data are located in Paris and its region.

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OW2 provides a Gateway to the Global Open Source Ecosytem at Open World Forum, from 30 - 31 October 2014, in Paris Eurosite Georges V

The OW2 Community is actively supporting Open World Forum 2014 edition. With a session about open source Collaborative Innovation in Europe and the Community Summit, it is also closely involved in the OWF program.

OW2 showcases OpenCloudware Open Platform at OSCON

OpenCloudware enables DevOps to overcome the challenge of deploying distributed applications over multiple IaaS platforms in hybrid cloud computing environments

OSCON, Portland, OR, July 20, 2014 – OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software showcases OpenCloudware an ambitious open source R&D project aimed at allowing DevOps to model distributed applications over several virtual machines, to assemble them, build, deploy and operate them on multiple IaaS, the whole process being IaaS-agnostic.

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For more details about the open source platform, read the OpenCloudware White Paper and check online resources, source code, demos and scientific publications at the OpenCloudware website.