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Engine Yard Transforms Cloud Application Development With Unmatched Control and Choice
SAN FRANCISCO,CA, Feb 26, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Engine Yard, the leading Platform as a Service (PaaS), is
transforming cloud application development with the announcement of
its new flexible and modular architecture, designed to give
developers more granular control of their environment and a greater
variety of choices for components, deployment options and
infrastructure. These capabilities offer a complete solution,
enabling developers to effectively plan, build, deploy and manage
their applications. With the right balance of automation and control,
Engine Yard frees developers from having to rigidly conform to a
vendor's platform while giving them a faster, easier and more
consistent way to build and scale their cloud applications.
The company's new architecture is being integrated into Engine Yard
Cloud. With the new flexible and modular approach, developers will be
able to more easily choose components and services offered by Engine
Yard or include their own. Multi-infrastructure support will allow
developers to select their preferred infrastructure provider.
Developers also will be able to deploy in a public, private or hybrid
cloud, and have access to an increasing variety of languages,
operating systems, databases and more. The new capabilities make it
easier for developers to manage and monitor their applications
throughout the entire cloud application lifecycle. In addition, a
powerful new user interface will allow users to leverage proven
blueprints of deployment options, and create and save custom
blueprints.
"Our experience working with thousands of production applications has
given us great insight into what running an open, flexible platform
requires. Ultimately, we believe giving customers absolute choice --
in terms of infrastructure, runtime components and app services --
fundamentally changes the way applications are created," said Bill
Platt, senior vice president of operations at Engine Yard. "These
enhancements will speed the pace of innovation by empowering
developers to create applications faster and more easily than ever
before, and they benefit from our deep operational expertise in
running large scale, professional apps."
Designed for Flexibility and Control
With this new architecture,
Engine Yard continues to maintain its leadership role in the industry
by offering the most flexible, scalable and customer-focused
application cloud in the market. The new capabilities available on
the Engine Yard platform today include:
-- Cluster model - Developers can create purpose-built clusters for
faster provisioning, configuration and deployment. Developers can
currently run database clusters, and in the future, they will be able
to deploy clusters of application and utility processes; clusters
within an environment can be spread across multiple regions for
disaster recovery.
-- Infrastructure abstraction - With a sophisticated infrastructure
abstraction layer now in place, developers will benefit from an
increasing number of IaaS provider options in the future, as well as
options for running on hybrid and private clouds.
-- Monitoring and Alerting - An automatic monitoring and alerting agent
is now included with all new Engine Yard Cloud deployments. Leveraging
the AppFirst monitoring engine, the new monitoring capabilities
provide incident data on applications, components and other processes
running on a developer's virtual machine. In addition, alerts and
monitoring information is available for virtual resources in the
infrastructure, including CPU, memory and disk.
"Engine Yard is making big changes in the application cloud market.
Their new architecture makes it simple to deploy and manage apps
while also giving us the access we need to customize our environment
down to the component level," said Phil Jeffs, creative director at
Area 17. "Being able to choose the infrastructure that best suits
each of our apps and deploy across multiple regions will make it easy
for us to deliver exactly what our clients need. And, the new UI and
blueprints will save a lot of time by helping us to standardize our
environments and spin up new projects faster."
Today, Engine Yard is sharing a preview of the new user interface and
blueprint capability.
-- Powerful, Dynamic User Interface - The modern user interface helps
developers plan projects and manage environments intuitively. The new
UI provides a structured experience that helps developers build a
stable architecture, as well as adapt to their growing resource
needs.
-- New Blueprint Approach - Three new blueprints allow developers to
standardize their application environments using Engine Yard proven
best practices. The new predefined blueprints give developers the
flexibility to choose the size of their environments as well as add or
remove clusters from an environment or components from clusters.
For more information about the new capabilities of the Engine Yard
platform, visit https://www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/preview.
About Engine Yard
Engine Yard is the leading Platform as a Service
(PaaS), empowering cloud application development more rapidly, easily
and cost effectively. With deep technical expertise, powerful
infrastructure orchestration, strong support of the open source
community, and world-class service, Engine Yard provides a trusted,
commercial grade solution that enables developers to focus on
creating great applications, instead of managing their platform.
Thousands of customers in 58 countries, from explosive-growth Web
startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, rely on Engine Yard to leverage
the cloud for competitive advantage. Headquartered in San Francisco,
Calif., Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise
Associates, Oracle and Amazon.com.
Media Contact
Theresa Maloney
Cogenta Communications for Engine Yard
Email Contact
415-225-5261
SOURCE: Engine Yard
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