VMware's Project Lightwave and Project Photon

摘要

As part of its push to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications, VMware recently announced two new open source-projects: Project Lightwave and Project Photon. Project Lightwave is an identity- and access-management project that VMware says will extend enterprise scale and security to cloud-native applications. Meanwhile, Project Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system optimized for cloud-native applications. These projects are designed to help enterprise developers securely build, deploy and manage cloud-native applications. By integrating into VMware's unified platform for the hybrid cloud, these projects will create a consistent environment across the private and public cloud to support cloud-native and traditional applications. The company hopes that the open-sourcing of these initiatives will foment a dynamic ecosystem of partners and developer community, leading to common standards, security and interoperability within the cloud-native application market. The desired outcome is improved technology and greater customer choice.