What does CumuLogic do?

 

Cumulogic is a software provider that enables enterprises, hosting providers and ISVs to build and manage Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in public, private and hybrid cloud environments

 

What is CumuLogic PaaS Enablement Solution?

 

CumuLogic Cloud Application Management Platform automates the provisioning, deployment and management of a Java Platform-as-a-Service for public, private or hybrid cloud environments.

 

CumuLogic enables enterprises to build an agile, extensible, secure and self-managed "platform-as-a- service" to address rapidly changing business demands quickly and efficiently.

 

What problem/challenges does CumuLogic solve?

 

Business agility and reduced cost of operations are the key drivers for enterprises to adopt cloud (private/public) as the foundation of their future IT infrastructure. Home grown/custom web applications are the key applications that consume the IT infrastructure, and enterprises are targeting these applications to develop/deploy in the cloud.

 

• • Enterprises are looking to standardize and optimize their application infrastructure so they can respond quickly to business needs.
• • Enterprises would like to consolidate/share the IT infrastructure and application infrastructure and thus reduce the cost of IT infrastructure and operations.
• • Developers look for availability of an on-demand IT/application infrastructure so that they can traverse seamlessly between dev, test, staging and production environments effortlessly.
• • IT would like to keep control of the these environments while giving the developers flexibility as these developers can get similar environments from commercial cloud providers

 

Is it software or a service?

 

CumuLogic Cloud Application Management Platform is available as software pre-installed on Amazon EC2 or can be installed on-premise

 

What market/customers does CumuLogic focus on?

 

CumuLogic is focused on serving mid/large enterprises that are looking to develop and deploy Enterprise Java applications in the cloud. CumuLogic will also work with enterprise-grade cloud vendors that are looking to offer Java Platform-as-a-Service to its customers.

 

What are the key business benefits of CumuLogic solution?

 

• • Simplified on-boarding of Java applications in public and private clouds
• • Consolidation of application Infrastructure -> Next generation, agile IT
• • Standardization of software/application infrastructure -> IT investment protection
• • Lower cost of IT/app operation
• • On-demand/self-service application infrastructure -> IT Control with developer flexibility
• • Increased speed of development -> Faster time-to-market

 

What platforms and technologies does CumuLogic Cloud Application Management Platform support/ manage?

 

CumuLogic is cloud agnostic and supports both public and private cloud environments. Initially CumuLogic will support Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus. Underneath those cloud environments CumuLogic will support Xen and vCloud hypervisors.

 

CumuLogic will support Apache, Nginix, Red Hat JBoss, IBM WebSphere and MySQL as the application environment.

 

How does CumuLogic Cloud Application Management Platform help a customer build/manage a PaaS?

 

CumuLogic automates various functions that are either done manually or lightly automated to build/ manage a PaaS. Most of these activities are carried out by developers and could be time consuming and still provide limited PaaS functionality.

 

What are the key areas of functionality in CumuLogic Cloud Application Management Platform ?

 

• • Provisioning and Configuration
• • Resource Management
• • User Management
• • Monitoring
• • Autoscaling
• • Resource Catalog
• • Resource Templates
• • Pre-build user control panels
• • Rich API
• • Pre-build integration with developer Tools