Open Infrastructure-as-a-Service
GigaSpaces Leverages "Citrix OpenCloud" to Deliver Flexible and Open PaaS Solution
GigaSpaces Builds on the Success of OpenStack, Accelerating Choice for Enterprise Cloud App Development
(15.04.11) - GigaSpaces announced they are collaborating with Citrix to provide an open, scalable platform for the development of enterprise cloud applications. GigaSpaces will leverage Citrix OpenCloud to offer a truly open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that will enable developers to use any hypervisor, development language, and runtime of their choosing – including Java, .Net, PHP, and Spring – to develop and scale applications for even the largest clouds. As a result, businesses can fully leverage their existing investments while benefitting from the economics and elasticity the cloud provides.
Today’s news builds on the October 2010 announcement from the two companies highlighting the integration between Citrix NetScaler, Citrix XenServer – both part of the Citrix OpenCloud solution – and GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). The integration addressed the need for seamless infrastructure with application scalability and elasticity. Building on this effort, GigaSpaces has joined the OpenStack Community – of which Citrix is a founding member – whose goal is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware.
Members of the OpenStack project have already made the open cloud a reality on the infrastructure layer with support for multiple hypervisors and open Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms. GigaSpaces wants to extend the openness and flexibility of OpenStack to the application platform layer, enabling enterprise customers to choose a cost-effective cloud solution that will not only allow them to automatically scale to meet the demands of employees and customers, but also evolve with their business needs and ensure that they are not locked in to a long-term solution.
The GigaSpaces solution built on OpenStack will provide the following benefits:
>> Openness: An enterprise-grade hybrid cloud stack solution that includes OpenStack-based IaaS and PaaS and is open to a wide variety of applications, including those based on Spring, Java, .Net, and other non-Java platforms.
>> Flexibility: Develop applications with a choice of application stacks (Tomcat, MySQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Ruby, etc.) and handle provisioning, elasticity, multi-tenancy, continuous high availability, and monitoring of those services in a consistent way across the stack.
>> Integration: By leveraging the Citrix OpenCloud solution GigaSpaces will provide tighter integration between the platform and the infrastructure layers to up-level services offered through OpenStack clouds.
>> Scalability: Enterprises can use GigaSpaces as the enterprise PaaS layer specifically geared for big-data analytics, e-commerce, and financial applications.
>> SaaS-Enablement: Ability for SaaS ISVs to SaaS-enable applications while delivering the same solution off- and on-premises.
(GigaSpaces Technologies: ra)
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