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Introducing UForge Appliance Factory; A New On-Demand Application Delivery Platform to the Cloud.(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Available today, UShareSoft's unique SaaS platform, enabling ISVs, developers and IT professionals to grow their business with scalable cloud ready offerings. Grenoble, France (PRWEB) February 9, 2010 -- UShareSoft launches two new products “ UForge Appliance Factory” and “ Open Appliance Studio”; a unique alternative in the field for building and assembling optimized technology stacks for agile "virtual" datacenter and cloud offerings. UShareSoft is introducing to the market the UForge Appliance Factory, allowing users to create, re-use, clone and maintain a complete software stack in a simple, consistent and predictable manner. UShareSoft's portfolio of enterprise-class tools dramatically simplifies the delivery of their software to physical, virtualized and cloud environments including Amazonor to VMware vCenter for both scale-up and scale-out computing. “Software appliances, over time can considerably reduce engineering costs while significantly speeding time to value for end users,” said Brett Waldman, research analyst, System Software at IDC. UShareSoft is also providing UForge Enterprise Edition. This is the on-premise version of its own SaaS platform for enterprise customers wishing to have their own factory for building software appliances in a few simple clicks. For more information contact UShareSoft directly. “France Telecom is currently evaluating UForge Enterprise Edition and Open Appliance Studio. These products are a promising solution for managing (creating, deploying and maintaining) virtual machine appliances. Foreseen advantages brought by UShareSoft include the independence of image format, the ability to include our own OS and middleware as well as controlling the governance processes.” said Alexandre Lefebvre, Group Leader, Orange Labs R&D. Until now, creating optimized stacks has been by and large done manually, that is error-prone, time consuming and requires dedicated expertise. Compounded by the economic crisis, the IT industry is having to do more with less; adding pressure to teams to deliver more in a shorter time frame. UForge's unique features include: - Support of the major open source operating systems (OS), inluding CentOS, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu, for both 32-bit and 64-bit. - A qualified catalogue of over 60 best of breed open source projects. - Granular contruction, cloning and maintenance tools. - One-click generation to many of the industry standard image formats - including Amazon AMI. UShareSoft, with Open Appliance Studio, allows users to turn their existing stack into a vApp enabling ISVs to highly differentiate their offering - the ability to deliver self contained multi-node Cloud SaaS offerings that can be deployed in minutes to any Cloud. “UShareSoft vApps is a new paradigm in delivering fully pre-configured multi-tier appliances. It is now possible to deliver a fully integrated BI solution within a single package including Talend ETL pre-integrated with other BI components. Furthermore with multi-OS support, UForge is a very attractive platform for partners and customers” said Bertrand Diard ,Talend CEO and co-founder. UShareSoft is now growing its partner network with ISVs, System Integrators and Cloud Providers. “Multiplying strategic partnerships and developing a large community of users are key objectives for the coming months” said Thomas Debru, UShareSoft CEO. Register now for FREE, and start delivering your software to the cloud in minutes. About UShareSoft UShareSoft founded in 2008 is headquartered in Grenoble, France, with an R&D Center in Argentina (Buenos Aires) and offices in the USA (Sunnyvale,CA). UShareSoft's mission is to deliver an easy to use software appliance factory that provides the best platform to create and maintain business ready software appliances for on-demand virtual & cloud computing offerings. See more at www.usharesoft.com. ### Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/cloudcomputing/0210/prweb3549014.htm. (c) 2010 PRWEB.COM Newswire |