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| Grid Operating System for Utility Computing 3Tera, Inc. announced the release of AppLogic 1.2, the industry's first grid operating system designed to enable utility computing for transactional Web applications. AppLogic allows hosting providers to offer the first true utility computing services by converting commodity servers into fully scalable shared grids that are easy to manage. The system enables existing software to be packaged into completely self-contained, portable applications that can be easily deployed and scaled to dozens of servers on demand on any AppLogic grid anywhere in the world. As a result, open source developers, Web 2.0 and SaaS companies can rapidly deploy Web applications without owning and operating hardware infrastructure, and paying only for the resources they actually use. Key to the capabilities AppLogic provides is leveraging the company's breakthrough Disposable Infrastructure technology. Disposable Infrastructure enables traditional appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, application servers and storage to become an integral part of the web application. Users visually assemble the infrastructure required to deploy and scale their applications. When an application starts, all required infrastructure is created automatically on the grid, maintained while needed, and disposed of when the application is stopped. As a result, each application includes everything required to run on a grid of commodity servers. This enables applications to be replicated complete with their data and content, scaled from a fraction of a server up to the whole grid, and even migrated to another grid anywhere in the world in minutes. The system handles server and storage failures without loss of data, permits hardware resources to be added or removed dynamically, and allows the grid and all applications to be managed remotely through an interactive web interface. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |