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Thursday, 26 March 2015

Pivotal embraces AWS, enriches hybrid cloud computing on Cloud Foundry

Pivotal, the creators of Cloud Foundry, a cloud-native application platform, says it has changed the game for hybrid cloud deployments. The announcement includes several developments:

Pivotal Cloud Foundry now has scalable virtual appliance support for Amazon Web Services (AWS). It already supports VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Air and OpenStack. With this feature, AWS customers can natively deploy Cloud Foundry applications in hours on their AWS infrastructure. This complete hybrid architecture lets operators migrate Cloud Foundry applications freely between on-premises infrastructure and the cloud, regardless of their underlying infrastructure.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides new one-click AWS integration, offering AWS public cloud customers the best path to Cloud Foundry. Basically, Amazon customers benefit from a path to their own dedicated Cloud Foundry platform on AWS. Pivotal customers can set up Pivotal Cloud Foundry under their own AWS account, or let Pivotal manage an AWS instance on their behalf by taking advantage of our new Pivotal Web Services with Enterprise Support. The new edition of Pivotal Cloud Foundry offers hosted application instances under a customer’s existing license at no extra cost. 

Pivotal Web Services with Enterprise support is now generally available and included in Pivotal Cloud Foundry software subscriptions, enabling hybrid cloud scenarios and easy portability from on-premise to public cloud. Pivotal Web Services is ideal for rapid deployments and avoids the administrative overhead of managing a public cloud infrastructure.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry customers can deploy and manage cloud native applications on almost any infrastructure without the operational cost and complexity of maintaining their own underlying cloud infrastructure.

“With the latest Pivotal Cloud Foundry release, Pivotal becomes the first major middleware vendor to include managed public cloud capacity in a software subscription at no additional cost,” said James Watters, VP and GM, Cloud Platform Group at Pivotal. 

“By offering hosted public cloud along with dedicated self-install on either public or private clouds, Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides the instant-on affordable capacity line of business (LOB) executives need with the robust security and automation features IT can also bring to private clouds."

With the new hybrid cloud-ready subscriptions LOB developers can start immediately on AWS while their private cloud build-outs complete, or run there entirely.

“When enterprises want to build modern, next-generation applications they turn to platform-as-a-service (PaaS), but once they successfully built these applications they need to deploy them. Easier deployment options to multiple cloud vehicles like public, hybrid, and private cloud are sought after and valued highly by enterprises who look for PaaS vendors to make not only the creation, but also the operation of their new next-generation applications easier and more efficient,” said Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research.

"Based on our high performance public cloud infrastructure and strong Internet data centre service experience, we pride ourselves on innovation and customer satisfaction. Our partnership with Pivotal has enabled us to quickly and efficiently build new products and solutions that meet both our customers’ needs and the needs of our business," added Dai Xiaobin, CEO, Beijing Capital Cloud Financial Information Service.

“As we moved to a fast changing era, the speed of IT is very important to support business innovation. (The) CITIC Securities executive team knew we needed an agile platform that was portable and cloud scale. After evaluating several solutions, we selected Pivotal because the enterprise-grade Cloud Foundry software is self-healing, open, and automated. And we are already seeing the benefits. With Cloud Foundry and Pivotal, the applications testing and deployment can be done much faster than before.” said Jun Li, Executive Director of Information Center, CITIC Securities.

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