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GigaSpaces Announces New Cloudify Free Product Edition
NEW YORK and SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
GigaSpaces (News - Alert) Technologies, a pioneer of next generation application
platforms for mission-critical applications, announces the general
availability of Cloudify, GigaSpaces' new cloud application platform
that enables organizations to easily on-board and manage any
application, on any cloud, with zero code change. After a successful
beta release in 2011, Cloudify is now available with a new free edition,
easy-to-adopt pricing schemes, and with a significant portion of the
product already fully open sourced, and more to be released soon.
"Cloudify is the industry's first cloud application platform designed to
enable enterprises and ISVs to take even their most mission-critical
applications to any cloud, without any cloud vendor lock-in," said Adi
Paz, EVP Marketing and Business Development at GigaSpaces. "Our driving
principle in developing Cloudify was enabling you to deploy any app, to
any cloud, your way. That means that you can manage your cloud adoption
at your own pace, maintain full control of your apps, ensure business
continuity, and minimize diversion of development resources in the
process."
Product Information & Features
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Built-In Recipes: Recipes are blueprints that tell Cloudify all
the details needed to run an application - which middleware services
to run, what the dependencies are between the services, how to install
the services, where to find the application and service binaries, when
to spawn more instances or terminate existing ones, and even how to
monitor each of the services. Recipes are the mechanism that enables
deployment of any middleware stack, using any data store (relational
or non-relational), to any cloud. Cloudify is offering new
built-in recipes, and more are slated for release next quarter.
Many
PaaS frameworks target new applications, and constrain the development
to vendor-specific models and configurations. Cloudify recipes are
designed to cope with almost any operational or engineering need, and
are very intuitive and easy to extend and customize. Cloudify recipes
include JBoss, Cassandra, MongoDB, Tomcat, MySQL and many more.
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New Cloudify Editions: Cloudify now comes in several editions,
beginning with a free edition that enables full commercial use, with
an easy upgrade path to advanced editions that include premium
features and commercial-grade support. This offering enables
organizations tomove to the cloud at their own pace without incurring
up-front costs.
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Multi-Cloud Support: Cloudify is the only truly independent
cloud application platform, enabling business organizations to choose
which infrastructure they want to work with, whether private cloud,
public cloud, or a hybrid deployment, and even non-virtualized
environments - thereby avoiding vendor lock-in. The Cloudify Open
Cloud Driver provides a plug-in that uses and extends the open-source
JClouds framework. It also includes cloud platform integration
specifications, and provides full access to the underlying
infrastructure resources such as language choice and monitoring tools.
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New Cloudify Community: The new Cloudify Community will be
launched on March 1, with user forums, guides, add-ons, recipes and
much more.
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Easy-Adoption Pricing: The new Cloudify pricing scheme is based
on a pay-as-you-go model. The Cloudify Free Edition enables
organizations to begin deploying mission-critical applications to the
public or private cloud with full control and minimal price barriers.
The Standard, Professional, and Premium editions offer increasing
support and monitoring capabilities, with pricing based on the number
of servers in use, ensuring that customers remain at the pricing level
reflected by actual use and organizational needs.
"Cloudify was developed based on GigaSpaces' extensive experience in
virtualization and delivering application platforms for large-scale,
mission-critical applications, and honed through our collaborations with
technology leaders in the Cloud space, such as Microsoft Windows Azure,
Citrix, Openstack, CA (News - Alert), and others, with some exciting new announcements
coming soon," says Paz. "We are proud to have been recognized as leaders
in the Cloud technology space by top industry analysts, and in major
industry arenas such as VentureBeat's CloudBeat showdown 2011, where we
were selected as a top-ten disruptive technology."
Availability and Download Information
The GigaSpaces Cloudify GA release will be unveiled at Cloud Connect
2012, and is now available for download here.
Learn more about Cloudify at:
Website: www.gigaspaces.com/Cloudify
Blog: blog.gigaspaces.com
Product Demo: http://bit.ly/xqVqpm
Conference: Come see us at CloudConnect - Feb 13-16, Santa Clara,
booth 722.
About GigaSpaces
GigaSpaces Technologies is the pioneer of a new generation of
application virtualization platforms and a leading provider of
end-to-end scaling solutions for distributed, mission-critical
application environments, and cloud enabling technologies. GigaSpaces is
the only platform on the market that offers truly silo-free
architecture, along with operational agility and openness, delivering
enhanced efficiency, extreme performance and always-on availability. The
GigaSpaces solutions are designed from the ground up to run on any cloud
environment - private, public, or hybrid - and offer a pain-free,
evolutionary path to meet tomorrow's IT challenges.
Hundreds of organizations worldwide use GigaSpaces' technology to
enhance IT efficiency and performance, among which are Fortune Global
500 companies, including top financial service enterprises, e-commerce
companies, online gaming providers, and telecom carriers.
For more information, visit gigaspaces.com,
or our blog at blog.gigaspaces.com.
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