Grid Computing News : 3Tera Announces Cloudware and AppLogic 2.3

Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based 3Tera announced that its eye-catching application building platform has gone through a major upgrade. The company calls its new platform an "infrastructure delivery network." At the highest level, that means that the company can deliver remote backup on its grid-based technology platform, which is called AppLogic. In the past, AppLogic could not deliver remote backup because it could not co-ordinate applications in multiple data centers and also because of a relatively low-level feature added in AppLogic 2.3: the ability to monitor the state of an application and the number of instances of it that are running. "What's new in cloud computing is the ability to leverage it for general purpose computing, and not have to write for a specific platform," said Bert Armijo, 3Tera senior vice president of sales, marketing, and product management. "As long as the application runs on Linux (and now Solaris too), we can move between data centers with a single command." In addition, AppLogic users can now use other software too.... read more