November 8, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Utility computing platform developer 3Tera (3tera.com) announced on Tuesday that it is offering the alpha release of a new concept in data center operations called Dynamic Appliances. 3Tera’s Dynamic Appliances are now available for free as an alpha release to all AppLogic users.
Dynamic Appliances are packaged data center operations like backup, migration or SLAs that users can add to their applications to provide functionality. Unlike traditional data center management systems that require months to deploy and numerous system administrators to maintain, Dynamic Appliances enable data center operations to be easily and directly embedded into distributed applications by dragging and dropping them into the application. The application can then perform that operation for itself, even when it is moved to another data center, says the company.
Dynamic Appliances work by leveraging the ability of 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system to package distributed applications into manageable entities. For instance, the Backup Dynamic Appliance, which is used to backup an application to an offsite service, doesn’t require configuration with lists of files or firewall rules because it can simply issue commands to AppLogic to perform operations on entire distributed applications.
“One of the biggest advantages of utility computing is the reduction in labor required to deploy, maintain and scale applications,” says Bert Armijo, senior vice president, sales and product management, 3Tera. “To accomplish this, we focus on driving manageability down into the applications, making them self-manageable. This is a very powerful way to deal with operations, because at the application level, most management issues are small and can be handled with just a few properties.”
Earlier this week, 3Tera partnered with Layered Technologies to offer free utility computing solutions to help businesses that have been affected by the recent California wildfire disaster.
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