One cloud provider offers his view of the competitive infrastructure sky – Network World
“SaaS delivery has lots of challenges — scale-out, multi-tenancy (how to allow many customers to efficiently and safely share the same, single application footprint so that my COGS and incremental delivery costs are a few pennies on the dollar rather than a few dimes on the dollar), commercialization (charging for a service and tracking access and usage rights based on payment) and operational management. Services like Salesforce.com’s Force.com and Apprenda’s Apprenda attempt to solve those challenges, but in slightly different ways.
Apprenda is a cloud application server that can be layered either on-top of offerings such as EC2, or on-top of traditional data-center hardware. It attempts to ease the application provider’s engineering of multi-tenancy and linear scale-out, with little to no effort on the part of the application provider. It eases pricing and provisioning through a few button clicks in a web portal. No burden to IT professionals, no burden to the organization.” (READ MORE)
