CloudSwitch Makes Moving Software Easy April 19, 2010
Move Software Painlessly into the Cloud
New startup CloudSwitch promises to make moving software in and out of cloud environments as easy as dragging and dropping a file from one folder to another.
Cloud computing is huge - we all know that. What’s driving IT personnel crazy is the act of trying to move their organization’s existing software applications over into cloud computing platforms. As always, designing from scratch is one thing, moving living, breathing applications is something altogether different. This usually means rewriting parts of code to make it compatible with the platform plus much testing and the always-dreaded rework.
Coming to the rescue of these overworked IT technical personnel is a new Massachusetts-based startup called CloudSwitch. And they’ve promised something so big it might just set the cloud computing industry on its ear.
CloudSwitch just released a free beta version of their software last week called CloudSwitch Explorer. Their software allows what amounts to drag and drop functionality for moving existing applications onto cloud computing platforms offered by providers. Basically, it acts as an intermediary layer between the company’s existing applications and the cloud provider’s platform. This layer takes care of the “on-the-fly” configuring that has to happen. The catch is that your company must already use virtualization software - something that is commonly used to make data centers more efficient by simulating multiple “virtual machines.”
CloudSwitch founder and VP, Ellen Rubin, states that their software grabs information about the virtual machines running each application and then runs it’s own ‘cloud-fitting’ algorithm that compares how the application works in the data center to how it would fit into the particular cloud provider’s infrastructure and then it translates commands between the two. Think ‘torque converter’ on an automatic transmission … CloudSwitch’s software acts as that converter between the application and the specific platform.
For more information, checkout CloudSwitch’s website at www.CloudSwitch.com.
