After a long collaboration, network optimisation company Riverbed has joined OpenStack, a community of developers collaborating on cloud architecture and an open source cloud operating system.

As part of its membership, the company will work to add OpenStack support to its WAN optimisation solutions.

Venugopal Pai, vice president of global alliances at Riverbed, says the company’s input will help OpenStack address performance challenges as more organisations move to cloud environments.

 "Joining OpenStack strengthens Riverbed’s commitment to global organisations that strive to deliver applications in public, private and hybrid cloud environments without compromising performance,” Pai says.

The OpenStack community currently includes 1644 people and 132 companies. Go here for more, or here for more on Riverbed.