(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud software developer Cloudsoft Corporation (www.cloudsoftcorp.com) has launched an enterprise-class cloud platform that, working with adjacent technologies in the stack, provides native support for Cloudsoft’s application delivery platform, Cloudsoft Distributed Mediation, which delivers optimized performance with true LAN/WAN application mobility.
According to its Monday announcement at High Performance on Wall Street, the new Monterey platform’s (www.montereyplatform.com) native support of CDM simplifies the development and deployment of complex, transactional applications in the Cloud. CDM’s technology automatically eliminates network and processing bottlenecks, as well as optimizing resource management and implementing policies to minimize latency and compress costs.
“Essentially Monterey lets you use CDM to rapidly develop mission critical applications; then deploy and run these applications on an enterprise class cloud infrastructure,” Cloudsoft founder and chief executive officer Duncan Johnston-Watt said in a statement. “The ‘M’ in Monterey is ‘M’ for middleware. CDM proves that only a middleware platform can ultimately bridge the gap between enterprise and the cloud and between cloud services providers. That’s why we chose the Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California as our symbol.”
Cloudsoft teamed up with pioneering managed cloud services provider PrimaCloud (www.primacloud.com) to prove this concept by building a prototype platform with the help of Citrix Systems, Intel Corporation and Super Micro Computer, as well as PrimaCloud’s strategic partners Enigmatec Corporation and Xsigo Systems.
PrimaCloud founder and CEO Dave Durkee said his company shares Cloudsoft’s vision of forming a bridge between business and the cloud, creating a production environment that offers the hallmarks of a purpose-built enterprise class infrastructure at significantly reduced total cost of operations.
“Central to this is our adoption of run book automation to orchestrate the provisioning and management of complex application environments which will provide Monterey’s customers with managed computing services on a utility basis that are highly available, scalable, and cost effective,” Durkee said in a statement.
Able to handle a wide range of simulated market scenarios, Cloudsoft’s recently developed electronic brokerage service, EzBrokerage, showcases the ease with which critical business applications can be developed and deployed using CDM.
Citrix Systems (www.citrix.com) data center and cloud division emerging products vice president Gordon Mangione said Monterey is a great complement to the Xen Cloud Platform and its recent initiatives to deliver open-source virtual infrastructure platform technology that enables cloud providers to offer enterprise-class infrastructure services that work seamlessly with the virtualized application workloads businesses are already running in their internal datacenters and private clouds.
“Monterey and the EzBrokerage application will further help the Xen community achieve its goal to empower providers and catalyze cloud adoption by the enterprise,” Mangione said in a statement.
Monterey also supports a hybrid cloud model where an enterprise may want to span multiple clouds for resilience. It can create a bridge or burst between existing infrastructure and managed cloud services, or even dynamically migrate critical functionality in order to collocate this with other business critical services.
