Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced its plans for enabling enterprises seeking to leverage the on-demand capabilities of Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform® by allowing them to design, deploy, and manage systems spanning both their data center and the public cloud provided by Microsoft.

“Our approach has been one of facilitating seamless integration of internal resources with the publically available infrastructure,” said Kirill Sheynkman, President & CEO of Elastra Corporation. “Our customers will be able to integrate in-house systems built on either .NET or Java platforms running on HyperV, VMware, and XEN with public clouds from Amazon and Microsoft. Where and how a system is deployed becomes a matter of policy and corporate governance.”

Elastra, a Microsoft partner, and a participant in early reviews of Azure technology, followed a declarative model for describing infrastructure capabilities and system requirements, as has Microsoft. Azure’s capabilities will become part of Elastra's Elastic Modeling Languages, and enable the Elastra Cloud Server to match Microsoft’s software components to the resources provided by the Microsoft platform in the customer’s own data center as well as in the public, Microsoft-based cloud.

"The fusion of the Windows Azure Platform with the Elastic Cloud Server enables architects to describe and automate the constraints and configuration dependencies between different data centers and application technologies, such as .NET, Java EE, or scripting languages like PHP," says Stuart Charlton, CTO of Elastra. "The Elastic Modeling technology shifts the tennis match between development and IT operations into a new collaborative conversation."

Elastra for the Windows Azure Platform is planned as a free release in Q1 2010. Integration with Elastra Cloud Server, now generally available for VMware and Amazon Web Services, is slated for the same timeframe.

“Our Enterprise customers have extensive investments in Microsoft infrastructure. So it’s a natural fit for us to expand our support for Microsoft technologies and enable IT to save valuable time and money automating their Microsoft infrastructure and applications using the Elastra Cloud Server,” said Peter Chiu, Director of Product Management at Elastra.

“We are thrilled that the cloud computing capabilities readily being adopted by the non-Microsoft IT groups will be delivered to the Microsoft-based ‘silent majority’,” added Sheynkman.