Apprenda gets the hybrid cloud religion

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Apprenda, a true believer in private Platform as a Service, is embracing the hybrid cloud with its latest release. CEO Sinclair Schuller said many companies are ready to test out at least some workloads in a public cloud.

Apprenda, a startup that’s bet big on a .NET-focused private Platform as a Service, is branching out. With its new Apprenda 4.0 release, the company says it can connect on-premises environments running Windows Server 2012 with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services resources as needed…

“We’ve been focused on private and now more people are talking about hyrid and want to start moving some workloads into the public cloud,” Sinclair Schuller, Apprenda CEO told me recently. “Now they can install Apprenda in their data center and point it to Amazon or Azure and direct workloads as needed and manage them all from one dashboard.” Now that it’s integrated with Microsoft System Center 2012, Apprenda can run across multiple private or public or hosted data centers and be managed centrally…

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