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June 30, 2008
Arjuna Releases Federated Cloud Computing Prototype
NEWCASTLE, England, June 26 -- Arjuna Technologies, a Centre of Excellence in reliable, large-scale distributed systems, today announced the availability of the Agility prototype. Agility is a federated cloud computing platform designed to increase business agility through a flexible approach to service provisioning.
Traditional IT infrastructure is constrained by inflexible silos -- which require time consuming, expensive and error-prone manual intervention in order to react to changing market conditions. Agility solves this problem by providing a controlled way for the enterprise to create a "private" or "internal cloud" of flexible IT resources capable of responding to change dynamically and efficiently. Unlike other approaches, Agility does not force "big bang" changes onto infrastructure and applications. Instead, an internal cloud is built by federating an enterprise’s existing IT resources.
As authority and trust present major organizational barriers to resource sharing, Agility allows owners to retain control of their resources by attaching policy describing the conditions under which sharing is allowed. Agility represents all relationships through service agreements which are created and maintained with regard to the policies of the parties concerned. It offers a high-level language in which to describe services, along with the hardware and software resources they require, and the connections between them. Agility monitors service agreements and dynamically provisions resources to maintain the agreed performance levels, automatically coping with changing demand and resource failures.
A later release, available in Q3 2008, will allow Agility-managed internal clouds to interoperate with Agility-managed Amazon EC2 resources. This enables enterprises to scale applications beyond the limits of their own internal IT capacity, or even to “outsource” them entirely. It also provides a cost-effective disaster recovery solution.
Arjuna is actively seeking technology partners.
About Arjuna Technologies
Arjuna Technologies is a Centre of Excellence in reliable, large-scale distributed systems building products for some of the world's leading software companies. Our mission is to enable the enterprise to seamlessly increase IT agility through a controlled, organic process, without compromising legacy operations -- providing the benefits without the pain.
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Source: Arjuna Technologies
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