Grid Computing News : 10gen Unveils Cloud Computing Platform

10gen Inc., an AlleyCorp company, has developed a new cloud computing platform that it is releasing on a limited basis. The platform was developed by Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz, the former CEO, CTO and software developer, respectively, of DoubleClick. It is an object-oriented application server that helps developers build, test and deploy Web applications hosted on large, managed grid computing environments. "The development and deployment of large-scale, high-availability Web sites traditionally has been a costly proposition requiring sophisticated engineering," AlleyCorp and 10gen CEO Ryan said in a statement. "We offer a turnkey solution that provides all the building blocks needed to create complex, high-volume sites at drastically reduced costs with considerably less time and effort." Architected for cloud computing deployments, 10gen said the technology lets developers write Web applications that scale automatically as demand increases.... read more