3Tera brings Windows to its cloud

03.02.2009

AppLogic 2.4 comes with several prebuilt 64-bit appliances, including MySQL, PostgreSQL and Tomcat.

3Tera has added a number of features on the management side in version 2.4 as well, including integrated policy engine support, better documentation in its visual editor (which is used to describe a deployment) and the integration of monitoring data with tools such as Hyperic and OpenView.

The policy engine support can, for example, be used to define service-level agreements. When the application exceeds a particular threshold AppLogic can start an additional server, and then stop it when the load drops, Nickolov said.

Users can also view the architecture of an application as described by 3Tera's Application Definition Language and not just the visual representation. The description can be used for troubleshooting or to create new architectures on the fly, according to Nickolov.

Enterprises and hosting companies that want to use the platform pay for the AppLogic software license, which starts at US$125 per month and server. They can then use the platform to deploy AppLogic in their own data centers either for in-house use or to build and offer cloud services in a hosted environment.