Registrations to “Elastic Server™ On-Demand” Virtualization Platform now Open By VSM News Staff published: Thursday, February 21 2008
Releases Community Edition platform with significant new
capabilities including community contributed software
components, shared virtual server templates, and Amazon EC2
autodeploy.
CHICAGO, Illinois—Feb 19th,
2008—Cohesive Flexible
Technologies (CohesiveFT) today announced open registration
for its Elastic Server™ On-Demand (ESOD) Community Edition
which has been in private beta since July ’07. The free
Community Edition has key new capabilities including the
ability for users to upload their own software packages and
applications for use in assembling, deploying and managing
virtual application stacks.
“ESOD Community Edition is a free Internet platform for
independent developers and individual enterprise developers
to take advantage of virtualization and cloud computing
utilities like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)”, said
Patrick Kerpan, CTO at CohesiveFT. “It allows them to take
their application stack ‘recipes’, capture them, and
reproduce them as virtual servers automatically with both
speed and quality”, he added.
Damien Tanner, co-founder of New Bamboo, the UK-based Ruby
on Rails consultancy said, “Elastic Server On-Demand lets us
generate identical server configurations in different
virtualization formats so everyone can be running their
preferred staging environment locally using Parallels or
VMware, whichever they prefer. Then the beauty of being
able to take the same configuration and deploy it to EC2 for
a live staging deployment is just amazing. “
Craig Heimark, CohesiveFT’s CEO, said “ESOD is the first
service to offer developers and operations complete control
of their server assembly independent of which virtualization
or cloud technology they require. The ability to allow the
independent developer community to jump into cloud-computing
in this way is an important dimension of our overall service
offerings.”
Timothy M. O’Brien, independent consultant and technical
author, said “To my experience, if a company used Elastic
Server On-Demand for a smaller enterprise application the
direct savings would be the cost of one systems
administrator. It is well-known that when a complex
enterprise architecture contains many components
administrators usually look to the development staff to
provide initial setup and ongoing production support.
CohesiveFT addresses this inefficiency by automating the
assembly of the system architecture. “
CohesiveFT’s platform allows customers to build and manage
applications for virtualized infrastructure. Using a “built
to order” process, customers assemble a downloadable,
cloud-deployable, application container in the
virtualization format of their choice.
CohesiveFT’s built-to-order virtualized application stacks:
- deploy to all major virtualization formats including
the Amazon Cloud (EC2)
- are given a unique encapsulated identity and MAC
address
- and injected with management and integration
Kerpan explained, “Significant customer demand led to the
release of the ‘build your own components’ capability. The
most requested feature from our private beta was ‘how do we
make our own code elastic?’ It feels great to begin making
that possible.”
Pricing & Availability
Registration for the ESOD
community edition is available at the CohesiveFT website (www.cohesiveft.com).
The ESOD community edition is free to use and is intended
for individual developers and non-commercial, non-production
use. In 2008, CohesiveFT intend to release commercial
editions of ESOD including a Personal, Team and “Team of
Teams” Editions.
About CohesiveFT
Cohesive FT was founded in 2006 by principals with deep
backgrounds in Enterprise IT, Commercial ISVs and multiple
successful startups. Cohesive Flexible Technologies enables
customers to build and manage applications for virtualized
infrastructure. Our solution, Elastic Server On-Demand
(ESOD), is a cost-effective,virtual machine automation
solution that enables customers to gain business advantage
from the new opportunities in data center computing,
reducing application infrastructure complexity while
increasing agility and customer control.
CFT has offices in London, Chicago and Palo Alto.
Amazon, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud are
the trademarks of Amazon in the U.S. and/or other
countries. Elastic Server™ is a trademark of Cohesive
Flexible Technologies, LLC.
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