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Inclusion of the Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris is the first step of delivering a complete Web services solution stack based on Sun products to be incorporated into the Cloudware architecture, announced earlier this year.
"AppLogic technology and 3Tera's business model of working with leading data centre operators has demonstrated the ability to make world class cloud computing infrastructure widely available, removing barriers for companies of all sizes to adopt leading edge infrastructure for their business", stated Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of global market development and engineering, Sun Microsystems. "Adding Solaris support to AppLogic allows companies to tap into Sun's proven network computing expertise and rich development community to build and deploy highly scalable, high performance Web applications and services."
"Sun's proven infrastructure software powers many of the most sophisticated online delivery environments", stated Peter Nickolov, president and CTO, 3Tera Inc. "Our announcement today is the next step in delivering on our Cloudware architecture announced earlier this year, providing an open cloud computing environment where users can leverage the best software technology available. Clearly Solaris is an important part of that solution."
"AppLogic has allowed us to deliver new on-demand services and attract new customers while decreasing the complexity of our operations and support", stated Todd Abrams, president and COO, Layered Technologies, one of 3Tera's major hosting partners and partner in the Sun Startup Essentials program. "Adding Solaris to our AppLogic powered services will empower both enterprises and Web 2.0 startups to rapidly deliver new services and explore the extreme scale and flexibility of cloud computing infrastructures quickly and easily."
AppLogic 2.3 Beta is available for Virtual Private Data Center users and for download by licensed users today. The release includes new OpenSolaris based appliances as part of the virtual appliance catalogue. Solaris 10 OS appliances are not distributed with AppLogic due to licensing requirements and users can find information on running the Solaris 10 OS in the 3Tera forums.
Other significant new features in AppLogic 2.3 include:
1. User Interface
- Application List now includes application state and start/stop controls
- Infrastructure editor provides new design annotations, documentation links, and scratchpad notes
- Application descriptors can now be edited directly
- Appliances with incomplete configurations are now flagged for easy detection
- Appliance/application shell/Web GUIs are now accessible from the dashboard
2. Core System
- 64-bit support
- Improved hardware device support for new chipsets
- Automatic check for application High Availability
- Volume browser and root-level shell access for regular users
- Self-serve file system check/repair
- Support for ZFS, UDS file systems and ext3 file system with snapshot capability
3. Catalogues
- Support for locked appliances
- Includes all dynamic appliances (including SLA controller for self-scaling apps, backup appliance, etc.) and new VPS templates
- OpenSolaris VPS and base appliances
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