Grid Computing News : 3Tera Reaches for the Clouds

3Tera is putting its grid operating system to work in a new cloud computing offering. The company says its Cloudware architecture for Cloud Computing without Compromise lets customers build and run large-scale applications in the cloud without regard to operating system, middleware, security, location, architecture or vendor. Based upon 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system, the Cloudware architecture incorporates storage, computing, connectivity and security "in a far-reaching architecture for building an open cloud computing system." Cloudware is vendor-agnostic, so any third-party vendor's software can be incorporated in a Cloudware-enabled system. Many hosting providers — and several enterprises — are building clouds using 3Tera AppLogic, a grid engine that has evolved into full-blown cloud computing infrastructure software. This technology works across physical and virtualized servers (sitting below the OS) and has built-in high availability, virtualized storage and per-use reporting." "3Tera's AppLogic gives us cost-effective agility and control of our computing infrastructure so we can move at the speed of the teachers and donors we serve," stated Oliver Hurst-Hiller, CTO of DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit Web site where teachers and donors connect to help public school students in need.... read more