Yahoo! is set to launch an open source version of its Traffic Server next Monday, providing users with a high-performance application server for cloud computing services.

Techworld reports that Yahoo!’s new technology will be unveiled at next week’s Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California. Yahoo! is already offering the code for its Traffic Server through the Apache Software Foundation, and has made the software open source with the aim of building a strong developer and user community. The company has stated that even competitors such as Google and Microsoft are permitted to make use of the technology if they choose.

Yahoo! claims that its Traffic Server will provide services for cloud computing including authentication, load balancing, routing and session and configuration management, with plug-in architecture allowing web traffic to be delivered at high speeds.

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