Oracle Press Release

Leading Technology Vendors Announce New Specification Designed to Ease Management of Applications Across Public and Private Clouds

First Platform-as-a-Service Management API Specification to be Submitted to OASIS to Develop Industry Standard

Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 30, 2012

News Facts

Leading technology vendors, including CloudBees, Cloudsoft Corporation, Huawei, Oracle, Rackspace, Red Hat, and Software AG, today announced Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification.

Designed for managing both public and private cloud applications, including packaging and deployment of the applications, CAMP will be submitted to Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for development of an industry standard, in an effort to help ensure interoperability for deploying and managing applications across cloud environments.

As the first effort to standardize a PaaS management interface, CAMP is intended to provide a common basis for developing multi-cloud management tools as well as offering cloud providers and consumers a REST-based approach to application management.

CAMP provides a common development vocabulary and API that can work across multiple clouds without excessive adaptation and is compatible with PaaS-aware and PaaS-unaware application development environments, both offline and in the cloud.

Common use cases for CAMP include moving an on-premise application to the cloud (private or public) as well as redeployment of such applications across cloud platforms from multiple vendors. CAMP reduces the effort to move applications between clouds and provides service assurance through interoperability.

Supporting Quotes

“Even though the PaaS marketplace is in its infancy, and vendors like CloudBees are driving innovation incredibly rapidly, customers are already concerned about lock-in and demanding interoperability. CAMP is an important first step toward that important goal,” said Steven Harris, senior vice president of products, CloudBees Inc.

“Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are emerging as the norm for the enterprise with PaaS trending rapidly as the natural entry point. CAMP will accelerate this trend as cloud-agnostic application management is key to cloud interoperability at this level,” said Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO, Cloudsoft Corporation.

“Oracle’s commitment to driving industry standards that are crucial to our customers’ cloud environments, and to adopting these standards in Oracle products, is demonstrated by our CAMP collaboration. CAMP defines a simple API that enables customers to have an interoperable solution across multiple vendors’ offerings, manage application lifecycles easily, and move applications between clouds," said Don Deutsch, vice president, Chief Standards Officer, Oracle.

"Rackspace wants clouds to be open to give customers freedom and choice. CAMP offers a way to enable application portability between public and private clouds, and even between cloud service providers offering similar Platform-as-a-Service solutions," said Adrian Otto, senior technology strategist, Rackspace.

"Red Hat has long believed in collaboration with the industry and open source community to drive the delivery of compelling technology to meet the needs of developers and enterprises around the world, and our participation in CAMP is another proof point," said Mark Little, senior director of Engineering, Middleware at Red Hat. "Platform-as-a-Service offerings like Red Hat's OpenShift offer developers an easy on-ramp to developing applications. A specification like CAMP represents a considerable step towards lowering the barrier of entry new developers perceive when it comes to migrate their workloads to PaaS."

Software AG is at the forefront of leading industry standards, recognizing the need for interoperable and portable solutions for our customers. Thus far, cloud standards have been limited to the infrastructure (IaaS) space. As an interoperable standard for management of applications on hosted platforms (PaaS), the CAMP specification takes it to the next level in the cloud space. We are pleased to have collaborated in this work and look forward to the CAMP specification in an OASIS TC in the future," said Hans-Christoph Rohland, Senior Vice President - Research & Development, Software AG.

Supporting Resources

CAMP website

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News Release from CA Technologies

Oni Launches New Cloud Services for Enterprises Using CA Technologies Cloud Platform

The Portuguese Telecom and IT Group Will Reduce Time to Market for New Services With the CA AppLogic® Platform

ISLANDIA, N.Y. and LISBON, March 13, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced that Oni, the Portuguese telecom and IT group, has signed an agreement to use the CA AppLogic® cloud computing platform to deliver the benefits of cloud-based services to the enterprise market in Portugal.

Oni focuses exclusively on serving large enterprises. In today’s fast moving environment, these customers need to launch business services quickly each time their competitive landscape changes. Instead of ordering new servers, assembling the necessary components, and configuring the various hardware and services, Oni will use the CA AppLogic platform to quickly deploy IT infrastructure and services for customers in hours instead of months.

Using the platform’s simple drag and drop interface, Oni can rapidly build new cloud services for customers, thereby helping them to decrease time-to-market, and giving them the flexibility to respond to new market opportunities. With the CA AppLogic platform, customers will only pay for what they consume, and when the business service is no longer needed, it can be shut down without disposing physical hardware, driving cost efficiencies.

“The CA AppLogic platform is a unique, turnkey solution that addresses the disruptive nature of cloud computing. By selecting this platform, we will be able to help our large enterprise customers reap the full benefits of cloud services,” said Miguel Allen Lima, chief executive officer of Knewon, the IT company of Oni Group. “We chose this platform based on its fast deployment capabilities and for its ability to support IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Now, we will be able to rapidly deliver cloud services in a cost-effective way, without expanding our IT staff or making large physical infrastructure investments. This solution is truly an IT performance accelerator. Our new mantra is: ‘think of hours instead of weeks or months.’”

Oni benefits from CA Technologies Business Service Innovation approach, which will enable the company to deliver business services more quickly and allow its enterprise customers to capitalize on disruptive and innovative trends in IT.

“Oni’s new cloud offering built on our platform will clearly help shorten the time and costs associated with launching new cloud-based business services,” said Pedro Ligero, vice president of Area Sales for Iberia, CA Technologies. “With the CA AppLogic platform, Oni is expanding its broad set of offerings and helping its large enterprise customers to drive innovation and create new opportunities for competitive advantage.” 

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• Cloud Commons® Ecosystem

News Release from CA Technologies - Cloud Commons Ecosystem

CA Technologies Expands Cloud Commons Ecosystem with New Features, Partners and Offerings

ISLANDIA, N.Y., March 7, 2012 – CA Technologies today announced several significant new features, partners, offerings and growth milestones in the Cloud Commons® ecosystem. Since the launch of the Cloud Commons Marketplace and Developer Studio in November, membership has increased by more than 40 percent and more than 500 members have joined the Developer Studio. The Cloud Commons Marketplace now includes over 50 enterprise-class solutions from CA Technologies and partners including AFORE Solutions, Layer 7 Technologies and Dome9 Security. In addition, developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) can now use the Developer Studio to create cloud-ready IT solutions designed for both public and private cloud environments at no cost, using CA AppLogic® software on test grids provided by partner ScaleMatrix, a private cloud hosting and San Diego colocation company.

Cloud Commons Marketplace Highlights

The Cloud Commons Marketplace features several new offerings spanning managed services, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including cloud applications, appliances, templates, packaged services, and content for cloud applications. Notably, CA Technologies is making available nearly 20 products that help customers maximize their CA Process Automation investments. Enterprises and service providers can use these offerings to orchestrate IT automation tools quickly and efficiently, helping to streamline virtualization and cloud deployments.

Customers can also purchase additional CA Technologies software appliances configured to run on CA AppLogic clouds. Newly available CA AppLogic appliances include: CA ARCserve® software, CA Service Catalog, CA Oblicore Guarantee™ software, CA Service Desk Manager, and CA Software Change Manager.

Third-party partners with new solutions available in the store include: Acolyst, Armada Group, BirdHosting, Cirrhus9, CorePLUS World, DNS Europe, GigaSpaces, Radix Technologies, ScaleUp, Skygone, and Visionway.

Cloud Commons Partner Activity

AFORE Solutions recently announced plans to offer its CloudLink security and management solutions and professional services through the Cloud Commons Marketplace. CloudLink is a multi-tenancy solution that securely extends customer enterprise networks with end-to-end encryption of network traffic to CA AppLogic clouds. AFORE’s professional service offerings include integration and migration from other cloud platforms, as well as appliance development and deployment for customers and partners of CA Technologies.

Dome9 recently joined the Cloud Commons ecosystem and will offer its SaaS security management solution in the Marketplace. Dome9 provides a first-of-its-kind, automated cloud firewall management service that centrally manages security across all servers and clouds.

Layer 7 Technologies is introducing an API/Web Services Gateway deployed as a CA AppLogic appliance that enables enterprises to integrate data center applications with services they run in a CA AppLogic cloud. For ISVs delivering SaaS services from a CA AppLogic cloud deployed on-premise or through a managed service provider, Layer 7 secures and governs how APIs are exposed to Web and mobile developers.

Supporting Quotes

“As the depth and breadth of the ecosystem reaches critical mass, we’re now realizing our vision for a self-sustaining collaborative community, development site and e-commerce marketplace for all things cloud,” said Brian Burba, vice president of Solutions Management, CA Technologies.

“The Cloud Commons ecosystem has broken down the barriers to entry for software vendors, service providers and end users that want to aggregate, provide, or consume cloud services through a true e-commerce engine spanning CA Technologies and third-party cloud solutions, platforms and providers.”

“We’re excited to join the growing set of services available in the Cloud Commons ecosystem,” said Dave Meizlik, vice president, Marketing & Business Development, Dome9. “Most cloud servers have security stacks left orphaned because they’re otherwise unmanageable. Together with CA Technologies, Dome9 will deliver centralized and automated cloud security management across all servers and clouds.”

"The Cloud Commons ecosystem represents a powerful opportunity for reliable, consistent hybrid cloud computing," said Dimitri Sirota, founder and vice president of Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. “Our goal in partnering with CA Technologies is to make it easier for enterprises, service providers and ISVs building on the CA AppLogic cloud platform, to simplify how they expose APIs to external partners, mobile apps and corporate data centers through a rapidly provisionable API/Web Services virtual appliance.”

For more information about these new features, partnerships, and offerings, register at the Cloud Commons site and follow@CloudCommons on Twitter.