GigaSpaces 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
- 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.
- 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 to
move to the cloud at their own pace without incurring up-front costs.
- 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.
- New Cloudify Community: The new Cloudify
Community will be launched on March 1, with user forums, guides, add-ons,
recipes and much more.
- 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, 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.