Thursday 29 July 2010
3Tera®, the leading provider of
cloud computing technology, announced today general availability of version
2.7 of the award-winning AppLogic(TM) cloud computing platform which reduces
the cost of cloud operations by adding automatic diagnostics, system
self-healing, and other enhancements to improve service availability.
AppLogic 2.7 integrates server, storage and networking virtualization,
hardware operations, volume management via highly-available integrated IP SAN,
advanced network security, orchestration and multi-service operations into one
turn-key cloud computing system. Because of this integration, AppLogic offers
the industry’s lowest cost of operation available for enterprises and
datacenter operations.
“With more than three years in operation with service provider partners, we’ve
amassed a great deal of information about how to operate a cloud,” said Bert
Armijo, SVP Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc. “AppLogic 2.7 puts
that knowledge to work to reduce the cost of service operation and improve
service availability.”
“Even compared to open source solutions, AppLogic has the lowest cost of
ownership,” shares Peter Green, CTO, Agathon Group. “Every new version comes
loaded with features and capabilities, which actually reduces the cost of
operation. In the last year we were able to triple the number of servers
running on AppLogic and grow internationally in three new datacenter locations
without adding IT personnel.”
“When we broke down the value of the services being provided, AppLogic is
thousands of dollars cheaper over the course of a year for us,” said Damien
Howley, co-founder and CEO, CellFrog, a phone conference and collaboration
services company. “Most importantly, AppLogic gives us the most modern,
world-class IT infrastructure and the ability to grow dynamically as our
business grows. As we scale, so do our savings.”
“After running AppLogic 2.7 we’re impressed with the simplicity to operate,
the advanced features and maturity of application management”, said Stephen
Hurford, communications director, DNS Europe, a 3Tera partner with hosting
operations in several European countries. “Going forward with our cloud
service offerings we feel confident to grow our business with such a robust
and potent platform.”
AppLogic - Main Features
AppLogic is the first turnkey cloud computing platform for service providers
and enterprises that can run and scale existing applications.
With AppLogic, datacenter operators can:
– Provide IaaS, PaaS, and Virtual Datacenter services from a single
platform
– Add or remove resources and storage without disrupting users
– Manage and scale remote resources easier than operating a single
server
today
– Handle hardware failures automatically without losing data and with
minimal downtime
– Provide comprehensive resource usage metering for billing and
charge-backs
With AppLogic, IT cloud users can:
– Deploy and scale existing Web applications without changing code and
architecture
– Integrate, monitor and scale applications and infrastructure using
just
a browser
– Package distributed systems for easy operation and portability
– Securely exchange date between multiple servers in the cloud
– Replicate Web applications between multiple datacenters
Significant new features in AppLogic 2.7
– Automatic-diagnostics and self-healing
– Storage health monitoring: AppLogic now monitors and detects hard
drive issues and reports them even before they result in
degradation. Operators can use this information to migrate volumes
and replacing hardware before there is any potential for data
loss.
– Automatic volume repair: AppLogic’s integrated IP SAN
automatically
schedules and performs volume repair to maintain data
availability.
– Controller soft restart: The AppLogic system itself can completely
restart without impacting the operation of subscriber’s
applications. This reduces the operator workload and associated
maintenance windows.
– Improved server isolation: AppLogic can now fully eliminate failed
servers to prevent them from interfering with the cloud’s
operation.
– New Catalog Appliances: AppLogic 2.7 adds over 30 new infrastructure
components, appliances and application templates, bringing the total
count of available free catalog components to slightly above 100. The
new appliances include:
– Infrastructure: new VPN with IPSec and IPv6 support, gateways,
port
switch, proxy and Web cache appliances, replicated NAS for
implementing disaster recovery (DR)
– 64-bit OS Support - Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, OpenSolaris
– Middleware: 64-bit MySQL replicated database appliance, several
new
appliances for Microsoft Windows (including scalable IIS and
SQLServer database)
– Application stacks and application templates - in addition to the
scalable multi-tier LAMP stack, AppLogic catalog now has Microsoft
ASP.NET application stack, simple and scalable 2-tier Windows
application and newer versions of the popular CRM system SugarCRM
and the enterprise collaboration wiki platform TWiki.
Availability
AppLogic 2.7 is available immediately to new and current customers and
partners. The release is backward compatible with all prior versions of
AppLogic and catalog appliances and applications. A detailed list of features
and notes is available at
http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic27/ReleaseNotes-2-7-8.html.
About 3Tera, Inc.
3Tera, Inc. is the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and
utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of online
applications. Named “Cool Vendor in IT operations, 2008″ by Gartner Group,
3Tera offers AppLogic(TM) , the first commercially available cloud computing
platform that completely removes the cost and complexity associated with
infrastructure. Available both for building in-house private clouds and as a
platform for cloud computing services, AppLogic allows IT professionals to
develop and deploy online applications in minutes instead of weeks, using only
a browser to manage and scale on demand fully distributed systems and deliver
security and business continuity for all applications, while fully controlling
their cloud computing environment. For more information, visit www.3tera.com
3Tera, the 3Tera logo, AppLogic, the AppLogic logo, Cloudware and Cloud
Computing without Compromise are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Tera,
Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other company names and marks
belong to their respective owners.
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Cloud computing is a concept of integration and virtualization of heterogeneous IT resources. It is an implementation of distributed computing which comprises sharing and managing usage of resources. It reduces the complexity of the computing process and provides X (which can be software, platform, or infrastructure) as a service (XaaX) or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). For example, the demand for computing power will vary for a retail outlet who will rent out additional server space from clouds (such as Amazon Web Services) in shopping season
The report forecasts the market size of Global Cloud Computing Services Market over the period 2008-2011. It elaborates the key trends in the Global Cloud Computing Services Market, and segments the total market by cloud computing options. Further, the report also provides the segmentation of Cloud Computing by components and talks about Cloud Hosting segmentation. It also profiles some of the key vendors operating in the Global Cloud Computing Services Market.
TechNavio Insights is a set of reports based on TechNavio – a market intelligence platform for the IT industry. It builds on the intelligence available within TechNavio, and leverages on the custom research experience of the ‘Technology Navigators’. TechNavio is built on years of experience of Infiniti Research in deep dive custom research and consulting for over 30 Fortune 500 companies and numerous large and mid-sized companies.
1. Introduction
2. Market Size and forecast
3. Segmentation by Cloud Computing Options
4. Segmentation of Cloud Computing by Components
5. Cloud Hosting Segmentation
6. Market Trends
7. List of Some of the Vendors in Cloud Computing
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List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1.1: Global Cloud Computing Services market (2008-2011)
Exhibit 1.2: Global Cloud Computing Infrastructure market (2008-2011)
Exhibit 3.1: Segmentation by Cloud Computing Options (2008)
Exhibit 4.1: IT Cloud Spending Break-up for Different Components (2008)
Exhibit 5.1: IT Cloud Hosting Segmentation (in 2008)
3Tera®, the leading provider of cloud computing technology and utility computing services for hosting providers, today announced AppLogicT is the first cloud computing platform to demonstrate support for IPv6. 3Tera and hosting partners Cari.net and ScaleUp Technologies successfully demonstrated database replication between applications running in two different cloud provider datacenters using an IPv6 VPN tunnel created with 3Tera’s new VPN catalog appliance.
Until now, IPv6 adoption has been slowed by the perception that it requires both support on the client side and complex code changes in applications. With 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform, it is no longer necessary to make changes in the configuration of the software in order to be able to support IPv6, while still keeping the data available to IPv4 users.
“We are removing barriers for IPv6 support and creating momentum for IPv6 adoption,” said Peter Nickolov, President and CTO, 3Tera, Inc. “Within AppLogic, applications and complex distributed systems are actually not aware whether they are running over IPv6 or IPv4, which makes the transition to IPv6 seamless.”
“In less than an hour we added 3Tera’s new VPN appliance to an existing application,” said Mark Ortenzi, President, Cari.net, a hosting provider based in San Diego, CA. “The appliance established an IPv6 tunnel for database and file system replication between the application running in our San Diego datacenter and another copy in the ScaleUp Technologies’ datacenter in Germany.”
Christoph Streit, Founder, ScaleUp Technologies, based in Germany commented, “We have experimented with native IPv6 in our datacenters for some time and 3Tera is making it easy for cloud users to utilize the IPv6 network. In our test no change was required to the datacenter, the application code or the client. For scaling a global cloud offering, this is critical to success because IPv4 addresses are more difficult to obtain internationally.”
Why IPv6 in the cloud? Adopting IPv6 both internally and for use natively between applications addresses issues facing the growing cloud computing ecosystem:
* increased need for IP addresses due to virtualization and cloud computing
* global accessibility of cloud applications
* government mandates for security
* complexity of adopting IPv6
* use of scarce IPv4 addresses for communications between applications
* ability to obtain IP addresses for international datacenter operators
Availability The AppLogic VPN appliance with IPv6 support used in the tests is available immediately to AppLogic users by contacting 3Tera. By the end of 2009 all relevant appliances in the AppLogic catalog will be IPv6-ready.
3Tera and hosting partners AgathonGroup, Cari.net, ClearManage, DNS Europe, ENKI Consulting and ScaleUp Technologies are either supporting IPv6 in the cloud today or are preparing to offer it before the end of 2009 in the U.S., Canada, UK, Germany, and Singapore.
About 3Tera, Inc. 3Tera, Inc. is the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of online applications. Named “Cool Vendor in IT operations, 2008″ by Gartner Group, 3Tera offers AppLogicT , the first commercially available cloud computing platform that completely removes the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. Available both for building in-house private clouds and as a platform for cloud computing services, AppLogic allows IT professionals to develop and deploy online applications in minutes instead of weeks, using only a browser to manage and scale on demand fully distributed systems and deliver security and business continuity for all applications, while fully controlling their cloud computing environment. For more information, visit www.3tera.com
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3Tera, the 3Tera logo, AppLogic, the AppLogic logo, Cloudware and Cloud Computing without Compromise are trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Tera, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other company names and marks belong to their respective owners.
The Internet today plays an important part in making communication and exchange of information convenient and more efficient. Through the Internet, data storage and maintenance are made possible by The Cloud, which is the collection of information that is used in business and other purposes. Availing of cloud computing services from cloud computing providers is a top choice for all businesses that are particular with the fulfillment of their cloud computing needs.
Cloud computing pertains to the use of the Internet for purposes that involve computations and other applications to be executed. Utilizing distant servers while doing computational work is one aspect of cloud computing that is very significant in the development of businesses. For instance, companies opt for cloud computing instead of hosting their basic business processes because it proves to be faster when done on the Internet, and is also cheaper than buying their own software and computers. Cloud computing providers see this as an advantage for them because they are capable of hosting multiple clients, and can provide remote servers to a large number of users. Cloud computing vendors often make a data center that holds all the information for their client, and in turn provide data storage and management services. Cloud computing vendors ensure a secure and safe connection for private businesses, which makes cloud computing more reliable in dealing with information and data that are to be processed.
The cloud computing market has a lot of available cloud computing providers from which users may choose from, depending on the needs that their businesses pose. For instance, there are cloud computing vendors that are dedicated to the sales and marketing industry, so businesses of this type might take full advantages of their services. Some cloud computing vendors offer storage and processing of data free of charge, but with specific storage limits, while some render their services at a very low cost, giving the users superb but inexpensive cloud computing services.
Choosing from a wide range of providers in the cloud computing market is rather tricky, and should be done with great care and radical thinking. It is of the business’ best interest to make their applications and data readily available through the Internet without compromising other factors such as security and storage capacity. With this, cloud computing vendors make use of high-end facilities that house their servers and digital devices that are used in cloud computing.
All cloud computing providers take into consideration the fact that stored data are very integral for business processes, and should be kept safe at all times. This means virtual and physical safety, both in the hardware and software used for all applications. Servers in remote locations are kept in infrastructures that are resistant to fire and other physical damage, while connections to the Internet are protected from access of other unauthorized users by ensuring secure and password-protected data centers, as well as blocking viruses that may corrupt their systems.
The cloud computing market caters to all businesses, whether it is for sales or for process-specific purposes. Regardless of how it is used, cloud computing services help make one’s business prosper by utilizing The Cloud in its entire splendor.
3Leaf Systems
3PAR
3Tera
10Gen
Adaptivity
Agathon Group
Akamai
Amazon EC2
Apache Hadoop -
Appirio
Appistry
AppNexus
Apprenda
Appzero
Aptana
Arjuna.
Asankya
AT&T
Bluewolf
Boomi
Box-Net
Booz Allen Hamilton
CA
Cassatt
Cisco
Citrix
Cloud9 Analytics
CloudBerry Lab
Cloudera
Cloudscale
CohesiveFT
Cordys
Cumulux
Dataline
Dell
Desktoptwo
ElasticHosts
Elastic Compute Cloud
Elastic Drive
Elastra
EMC
Engine Yard
ENKI
Enomalism
Eucalyptus
eVapt
FlexiScale
Force.com
Fortress ITX
G.ho.st
GigaSpaces
GoGrid/ServPath
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3Tera, the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, and SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, recently announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership to provide customers with flexible, scalable, performance-certified Web sites and applications that can reliably handle traffic spikes and associated resource requirement changes.
With this partnership, 3Tera customers will have access to SOASTA’s performance certification process and methodology to achieve the best use of their current cloud infrastructure, powered by 3Tera AppLogic cloud computing platform.
“Working with 3Tera blends together the best of both worlds-flexible cloud computing infrastructure and best-of-breed cloud testing to create an easy, quick and very effective solution for successfully deploying applications in the Cloud,” said Tom Lounibos, CEO, SOASTA.
Bert Armijo, senior vice president of sales, marketing and product management, 3Tera, Inc., commented, “SOASTA’s innovative cloud testing approach integrates perfectly with 3Tera’s cloud computing offerings, providing customers new levels of precision when architecting applications for scaling with demand.”
“As a Web-based charity on a lean budget, we need to make sure we understand how our application architecture, code and database design perform when traffic escalates,” said Oliver Hurst-Hiller, CTO, Donorschoose.org, a nonprofit organization that helps public school teachers with limited budgets find funding for classroom projects. “Working with 3Tera and SOASTA provides us with a flexible infrastructure that enables us to understand our application’s limits and how to manage availability and cost when media coverage causes traffic spikes on our Web site.”
SOASTA Performance Certification, based upon its CloudTest On-Demand load and performance testing solution, is a turnkey process that dramatically reduces the cost and increases the accuracy of Web-scale testing. SOASTA CloudTest identifies potential bottlenecks, such as application or network issues that limit the scalability and reliability of an application. By providing end-to-end validation of performance, SOASTA ensures that a Web application or Web site can handle unexpected spikes or surges in traffic.
Benefits for customers
3Tera provides unprecedented control over the infrastructure and resources used to operate applications deployed in the Cloud. By removing the need to manage configuration of individual servers and virtual machines, application performance in the cloud becomes much easier to predict and measure. SOASTA CloudTest combined with 3Tera AppLogic deliver significant benefits to customers, including:
About SOASTA, Inc.
SOASTA’s mission is to ensure that today’s Web applications and services perform in a high quality, scalable, and predictable manner. The company’s product, SOASTA CloudTest(tm), is available as an on-demand service in the Cloud or as an appliance (virtual and hardware), and enables developers to test and monitor their Web applications and services at an affordable price. SOASTA CloudTest supports Load, Performance, Functional, and Web UI/Ajax testing. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit www.soasta.com
About 3Tera, Inc.
3Tera, Inc. is the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of online applications. Named “Cool Vendor in IT operations, 2008″ by Gartner Group, 3Tera offers AppLogic , the first commercially available cloud computing platform, that completely removes the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. Available both for building in-house private clouds and as a platform for cloud computing services, AppLogic allows IT professionals to develop and deploy online applications in minutes instead of weeks, using only a browser to manage and scale on demand fully distributed systems and deliver security and business continuity for all applications, while fully controlling their cloud computing environment. For more information, visit www.3tera.com
Bill Coleman joins 3Tera's advisory board
3Tera, the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, today announced that Bill Coleman has joined its advisory board. A technology luminary and Silicon Valley veteran for over 30 years, Coleman will provide strategic insight and guidance to 3Tera’s management team as it positions the company to further pursue the enterprise and service provider markets.
“I firmly believe that 3Tera’s cloud computing technology and vision will drive fundamental change to the next generation of information technology,” said Coleman. “I am excited to be a part of this and to share my views and expertise, helping 3Tera position itself best to lead the cloud adoption in the enterprise.”
“Having Bill Coleman join our advisory board is a testimony to how much 3Tera has accomplished,” said Barry X Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera, Inc. “Bill’s insights into large scale corporate IT while at Sun and BEA will be extremely valuable to us as we continue to be lead of the cloud computing market. We are thrilled to be working with him and seek his advice.”
About Bill Coleman
Bill Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Most recently he was founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, software provider helping make datacenters more efficient and agile, recently acquired by CA. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.
About 3Tera, Inc.
Bill Coleman joins 3Tera's advisory board
3Tera, Inc. is the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of online applications. Named “Cool Vendor in IT operations, 2008″ by Gartner Group, 3Tera offers AppLogic(TM) , the first commercially available cloud computing platform that completely removes the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. Available both for building in-house private clouds and as a platform for cloud computing services, AppLogic allows IT professionals to develop and deploy online applications in minutes instead of weeks, using only a browser to manage and scale on demand fully distributed systems and deliver security and business continuity for all applications, while fully controlling their cloud computing environment. For more information, visit www.3tera.com
RedPeak Solutions has successfully combined the skills, expertise and process optimization to deliver winning cloud solutions to enterprises of all sizes,” said Bert Armijo, SVP Sales, Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc. “As cloud computing matures, we are seeing a greater need for consulting and deployment services to transition traditional applications to the cloud. Having RedPeak Solutions facilitating the cloud computing deployments will accelerate customer adoption. RedPeak Solutions, a cloud computing consulting expert and managed services provider, announced today a strategic partnership with 3Tera(R), Inc., the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, to provide consulting, implementation and deployment services enabling companies to accelerate time to market by combining the right type of cloud solution - internal, public or hybrid - to fit their business needs. Target customers include enterprises, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, Web 2.0 companies and software development and quality assurance organizations that are moving to cloud environments using 3Tera’s award-winning AppLogic(TM) cloud computing platform.
Tom McKee, Manager of Marketing Communications at Ferrotec USA said, “RedPeak Solutions is great to work with as they’ve supported our online efforts with new Web applications that enable us to differentiate our offering from the competition.” He went on to say, “working with them has been easy, efficient, and in-budget.” RedPeak Solutions worked with our IT team to design a grid-based/cloud-based solution that scales to meet our business needs. With the underlying AppLogic platform, moving our site from a traditional physical infrastructure to a grid solution was perfect for our needs.”
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List of Top “Cloud Computing Solution Providers to Watch in 2009″ By onCloudComputing.com
Cloud Offers Completely Controlled, Reliable, Cost-effective & Flexible Instances. Build Websites, Servers and Storage that Scale Instantly on Demand. We have listed the most prominent and growing players in Cloud Computing.Surely it will help you to Chose the Best Cloud Computing Provider for your Needs.
2009 is an important year as far as Cloud Computing is concerned. Overall worldwide IT spending is expected to decrease by 3.8 percent in 2009, but certain parts of the market such as Cloud Services will see explosive growth. Global cloud services revenue is on pace to surpass $56.3 billion in 2009, rising 21.3 percent from 2008 whereas the worldwide IT spending would reach $3.2 trillion, down about 3.8 percent from the $3.4 trillion spent in 2008.
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Here is the List of Top “Cloud Computing Solution Providers to Watch in 2009″
Cloud Computing Services provider 3Tera
3Tera, a provider of cloud computing services and technology, said this week that it has rolled out a new marketplace for production-ready software. According to 3Tera, its new 3Tera AppStore will allow enterprise users, software vendors, and others to sell production-ready cloud components, based on its cloud computing services.
The store catalog features infrastructure elements and networking components, such as load balancers and firewalls. Also included are server components like Web and directory servers and storage offerings.
“With the introduction of 3Tera’s AppStore, we’re enabling a community of software providers to make their products easily available in the cloud and accessible on-demand,” said Barry X. Lynn, 3Tera chairman and CEO, in a statement released by the company.
Users can access pre-configured applications to add to AppLogic catalogs. Many are free or offered for trial use. Others are provided on a pay-per-use basis. ISVs can distribute cloud components and data center architects and consultants can publish application infrastructures.
Initial partners in the AppStore initiative include CohesiveIT, Layer 7 Technlogies, Soasta, Tap In Systems, and Zeus Technology. The beta version of AppStore goes live in the third quarter of this year.
3Tera runs a service which allows companies to virtually configure infrastructure and computing appliances, and pay for them per-use. The firm said the new marketplace will allow companies to offer components such as pre-configured web servers, databases, and applications along with datacenter infrastructure such as firewalls and switches to others
