3Tera brings Windows to its cloud

03.02.2009
3Tera has added support for Windows applications and appliances to version 2.4 of its cloud-computing platform AppLogic, the company announced Tuesday.

"This is the first commercial release that supports Windows. It has been in beta for a couple of months and customers have been using it in production," said 3Tera CEO Barry Lynn.

The importance of Windows support has grown as the enterprise sector has started to get more interested in AppLogic. The company expects that customers will run the same applications in the cloud that they're currently running in traditional data centers, especially transaction-based ones, according to Lynn.

The platform already supports Sun Microsystem's Open Solaris, Solaris 10 and Linux, which is where 3Tera first got started.

3Tera has also added support for 64-bit systems, and any performance improvements from running an application on a 64-bit server will exist in the cloud as well, Lynn said.

With AppLogic, companies can mix and match 32-bit and 64-bit, according to 3Tera. "For your load balancer or your Web server, you probably don't need 64-bit, and for your database and your application server, where you do need the memory, you run a 64-bit environment," said Peter Nickolov, CTO at 3Tera.