Apprenda APIs Enable Private PaaS Deployments to Dynamically Scale
February 4, 2014
Grazed from ProgrammableWeb. Author: Michael Vizard.
The emergence of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings as a foundation to build applications in a way that abstracts traditional middleware is proving to be a boon for developers in the age of the cloud. The challenge is that there is no such thing as a single cloud. The cloud actually consists of a mix of programmable platforms that lie both inside and out of the traditional enterprise.
Apprenda wants to make it easier to invoke those cloud resources with the inclusion of an API that allows developers to dynamically scale resources in response to user traffic demands or a specific policy requirement within the PaaS environment. As a (PaaS) offering that can be deployed on premise or in the cloud, Rakesh Malhotra, vice president of product for Apprenda, says version 5.0 of the company’s namesakes PaaS offering is the first PaaS environment that provides an API through which developers can dynamically control how IT resources are consumed across a hybrid cloud computing environment…
While that capability is routinely made available in public cloud computing environments, Malhotra says that Apprenda 5.0 marks the first time that IT organizations can provide the same capability on a private cloud…
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