Elastra First to Deliver Point-and-Click Configuration and Automated Management of Application Servers in the Public Cloud.Elastra Cloud Server On Demand 1.1 Adds Clustered Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat is a web container, or application server developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, providing an environment for Java code to run in cooperation with a web to Elastra's Cloud Application Infrastructure Management Software SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of software for designing, deploying and managing complete application infrastructure systems in public and private compute To perform mathematical operations or general computer processing. For an explanation of "The 3 C's," or how the computer processes data, see computer. clouds, today expanded its Elastra Cloud Server On Demand offering with its v1.1 release to support Apache Tomcat 5.5 and provide an enhanced browser-based user interface. Elastra's offering also supports clustered, scalable relational databases relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB. Delivered on Amazon Web Services' enterprise-grade cloud computing (1) Running applications in or from network servers. Computing "in the cloud" may refer to a company's own network, but often refers to the Internet and the use of Web browser-based or rich client applications. environment, Elastra Cloud Server On Demand 1.1 removes the manual processes and complexity of managing application infrastructure and middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a in the cloud Refers to the operation taking place within a network. See cloud. , all without the need for scripting. "In this economic environment Enterprise IT, ISVs and application development teams will be further-pressed to meet business objectives more quickly and with fewer resources," said Nate Smith, vice president of product development, Elastra. "Elastra Cloud Server On Demand 1.1 enables application development and IT staff to focus on business-differentiating activities rather than mundane configuration management and reactive operational tasks. Our architectural approach provides cloud portability so that customers over time can design their cloud application architecture once and deploy and manage it seamlessly on multiple public and private cloud environments." Elastra Cloud Server On Demand 1.1 provides pre-configured clustered Apache Tomcat architecture designs and access to native Tomcat A popular Java servlet container from the Apache Jakarta project. Tomcat uses the Jasper converter to turn JSPs into servlets for execution. Tomcat is widely used with the JBoss application server. For more information, visit http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat. See Jakarta and JBoss. administrative tools, allowing customers to deploy and manage their applications in the cloud using the industry-standard application infrastructure software and tools they are already trained to use. The system architecture designs are push-button (electronics) push-button - A roughly fingertip-sized plastic cover attached to a spring-loaded, normally-open switch, which, when pressed, closes the switch. Typical examples are the keys on a computer or calculator keyboard and mouse buttons. deployed and managed in public clouds, all without the need for time-consuming and error-prone scripting. Elastra Cloud Server On Demand 1.1 delivers a complete, scalable, pay-for-use application infrastructure environment. With Elastra Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. users can tailor the offering to meet individual project needs. "Elastra delivers its offering on Amazon's industry leading public cloud, giving customers peace-of-mind that their applications are running on the most robust, secure and scalable enterprise-grade solution," added Smith. "Using Elastra Cloud Server On Demand, customers can achieve the benefits of cloud computing without specialized knowledge of or previous experience with Amazon's platform, with both minimal risk and seamless cloud portability." Product Availability Elastra Cloud Server On Demand 1.1 is currently available. For more information please visit: http://www.elastra.com/products/elastra-cloud-server/. About Elastra Elastra provides software for designing, deploying, and managing complete application systems in public and private cloud computing environments. Our products simplify and automate the complex processes associated with database and application infrastructure configuration, deployment and management, while elastically-scaling sophisticated application systems up and down based on computing need. For companies building applications Elastra removes the cost, complexity and resource-drain of owning, scaling and managing databases, middleware and the underlying infrastructure, and allows customers to realize the true value of cloud computing. For more about Elastra, visit us on the Web at www.elastra.com. |
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