CloudCenter is a platform-as-a-service for managing cloud applications. Users don't have to worry about the underlying OS. It can work with either Windows or Linux applications. All an application's required related files, such as Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) or other libraries, are packaged so they can be run on a platform developed by CliQr called the CloudCenter Orchestrator. Orchestrator allows the user's software to run across different cloud providers without modification. The company also offers a series of templates for common cloud uses such as multistep workflows, cluster computing, high-volume batch programming, parallel programming and big data jobs.

The users manage their cloud applications through a console, called the CloudCenter Manager, which is available as a service from CliQr. The console controls the application's deployment, provisioning, storage management, performance metrics, license management and security reports. Billing is still handled directly with the provider, however.

Formerly called Osmosix, CliQr is based in Mountain View, California. Google Ventures and Foundation Capital have both provided venture capital to the company. The founders have previously worked at companies such as VMware, Oracle and McAfee.

CliQr already has a number of customers using the service. Medical equipment provider RefleXion Medical deployed the service to run an application on both Amazon and Rackspace clouds. RefleXion was able to package its application for the cloud within a single day and was able to cut the time of running the application to less than 24 hours in the cloud, much less than the four weeks it required to run the program on in-house equipment.

The IDG News Service