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Elastra Cloud Server

ELASTRA Adds Support for Eucalyptus Platform

August 20, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

ELASTRA, which recently raised $12 million from Amazon and other investors, today announced Elastra Cloud Server support for the Eucalyptus platform.

ELASTRA’s products are designed for portability across compute clouds and currently provide support for the Amazon EC2 and S3 compute and storage environments. Because Eucalyptus exposes its virtual machines through an EC2-compatible API, ELASTRA’s portability to Eucalyptus was a straightforward addition to its platform offering.

Eucaplyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems) is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon EC2, cloud computing, Elastra, Elastra Cloud Server, ELASTRA Corporation, eucalyptus, virtualisation, virtualization

Elastra Raises $12 Million from Amazon for Cloud Management

August 5, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Elastra, a startup focused on providing solutions for internet cloud configuration and management, secured $12 million in Series B financing in its second venture round, which was was led by Bay Partners, with Amazon.com and existing investor Hummer Winblad also participating. Elastra had previously raised $2.6 million. If the investment by Amazon makes you raise your eyebrows too, go read the excellent analysis on GigaOM.

Check our previous coverage of the company here.

CEO Kiril Sheynkman says Elastra’s offering is unique because it can manage individual applications, rather than virtual appliances, and because it manages applications across private and public Internet clouds.

Elastra now has more than 40 paying customers running databases on Amazon’s cloud using its technology, and plans to announce support for VMware and additional components such as application and web servers. It’s also planning to support clouds other than Amazon.

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[Source: VentureBeat]

Filed Under: Funding Tagged With: Amazon, Bay Partners, cloud computing, Cloud Server, Elastic Computing Markup Language, Elastic Deployment Markup Language, Elastra, Elastra Cloud Server, Enterprise DB, financing, Funding, Hummer Winblad, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, MySQL, PostgreSQL, virtualisation, virtualization

Elastra Makes Cloud Computing More Accessible For Enterprises

March 25, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

San Francisco-based startup Elastra seeks to “unlock the value of the cloud” with a new service that lets enterprises quickly create database applications on utility computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. The company says its Elastra Cloud Server offers an easier way to deploy applications on Amazon’s infrastructure, providing customers with two markup languages that can be used to create database-driven services. The Cloud Server uses a metered, pay-per-use software pricing model, and will be available in April.

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Elastra’s tools include the Elastic Computing Markup Language (ECML) and Elastic Deployment Markup Language (EDML), and system management dashboards to scale deployments. Available databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB, an Oracle-compatible database which just raised $ 10 million in Series C financing.

Dana Gardner at ZDNet notes:

In general the Elastra approach provides onramps to compute clouds based on descriptive tools that help reduce complexity for IT departments. This should encourage experimentation and ultimately lead to ramp ups in the use of public clouds, as well as the build-out and use of home-grown, so-called private clouds. Less attention has been given of late to the promise of private clouds, which are really a natural extension of current datacenter consolidation, clustering, application modernization, ITIL and virtualization initiatives.

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Part of Elastra’s DNA is putting more data in the cloud, where it can be used assiduously to support apps, services and business processes. And once the data layer makes its way to the cloud (private, public or both), can the rest of the support infrastructure be far behind? We’re already seeing a lot of talk around integration as a service, and infrastructure as a service. And we’re also increasingly seeing tools and development as a service.

[Source: Data Center Knowledge]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cloud Server, coud computing, Elastic Computing Markup Language, Elastic Deployment Markup Language, Elastra, Elastra Cloud Server, Enterprise DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, virtualisation, virtualization

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