Cloud Computing: AppScale Launches As An Open-Source Backup Equivalent To Google App Engine
June 25, 2013
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.
Startup AppScale has launched its open-source backup up service for Google App Engine (GAE), which is compatible with standard cloud services that developers use when building apps. The company, which was one of six startups that presented at the Structure conference last week, stood out even if it did not win an award for overall best startup and even though it wasn’t the audience award winner. Here’ why: It is a backup Platform as a Service (PaaS) for a PaaS and infrastructure services.
ScaleSafe, the company’s first product, automates the failover and migration of cloud apps and data from GAE. Company Co-founder and CTO Chandra Krintz calls the service a portability layer between a developer’s app and cloud services…
Krintz said the AppScale platform supports standard services such as NoSQL storage, SQL storage, object/blog storage, data caching, authentication, full text search, background multitasking, MapReduce and other services…
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