Enterprise “app stores” in the cloud
Posted: May 20, 2009
By: news.cnet.com
In conjunction with the well attended Interop and Enterprise Cloud Summit conferences in Las Vegas this week, cloud infrastructure and service vendor 3TERA announced the 3TERA AppStore, an online portal containing a variety of “cloud ready” components for use on their AppLogic platform. This is the latest commercialization of cloud image stores, and another example of how cloud computing enables marketplaces that were difficult or impossible to do before.
One of the earliest example of this trend comes from none other than Amazon, which provided a commercial payment system (called DevPay) for their Amazon Machine Image store some time ago. What has come of that experiment is in fact an amazing adoption rate for even some of the biggest software system companies in the business, including Oracle and IBM…….[read entire article]
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