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Makara Breaks Out Of Stealth Mode, Leverages Virtualization For Cloud Application Management

February 3, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Makara today unveiled a new approach to cloud computing’s most difficult problem: application deployment and management.

Rather than retrofit system management software designed for traditional application environments to the cloud, Makara’s Cloud Application Platform leverages the virtual layer to allow developers to rapidly deploy, scale and monitor applications in cloud environments.

Makara provides easy on-boarding to the cloud. With Makara’s Cloud Application Platform, developers are able to deploy new or existing web applications to a public or private cloud with no code changes.  Makara has integrations built in for all of the components of a web application stack, and developers can choose the versions they need from a catalog.  Once the application is deployed, developers have deep introspection to the application runtime and cluster-wide visibility into end user response times end-to-end through the entire stack.

Makara’s Cloud Application Platform supports Java, Flex, PHP, JBoss and Tomcat applications. It runs on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Terremark vCloud Express, VMware ESX, VMware Workstation, VirtualBox and Xen.

Makara is pioneering a new approach to application management that works as part of the underlying platform with all management and monitoring built into the virtual layer. The technology sits on top of the hypervisor and under the application stack, making it flexible and easy to port across cloud and virtual environments. With Makara, developers can easily provision across clusters or even move between cloud providers with the push of a button.

Formerly known as WebappVM, Makara has raised angel funding from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, according to TechCrunch. The startup also raised $6 million last year from Shasta Ventures and Sierra Ventures.

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