Not long ago, I interviewed Verecloud’s Hossein Eslambolchi about leveraging cloud computing for more sophisticated orchestration of services. In that talk, he spoke of the tens of billions of end points that will have to be managed and scaled. Because application servers are the “worker bees” for creating and deploying application environments in a cloud (along with web servers and management servers), it’s a seemingly natural next step that Verecloud today announced it will use GigaSpaces extreme Application Platform.
The company claims the application server platform is “ideal” for customers who want the flexibility of working in both cloud-based and on-premise environments. The key for CSPs will be whether or not they have the ability to process high volumes of transactions, and to enable better management of these large-scale application servers in their growing “virtual” environments. They will require tools that can help manage scale, multi-tenancy and related systems such as billing and charge-back mechanisms.
In its announcement, Verecloud claims the GigaSpace app servers are a “build once-run-on-any-hardware” choice, so time will tell if that is true. Indeed, operators need all the help they can get to scale out horizontally so they can add resources of their choice as needed. CSPs also need the flexibility to work with whatever data-structures they need within their applications, and across many machines. It would be nice to think more sophisticated platforms will help in flexible, vendor-agnostic ways to help CSPs manage what will be very complicated environments.
Susana, fyi companies like O2, Virgin Mobile, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Kohl’s and others are using GigaSpaces in production for quite some time now to scale their apps and to build-once and-run-on-any-hardware.
We’d be happy to brief you if you are interested.
Amnon Raviv
GigaSpaces