CumuLogic Cloud Application Platform for Enterprises

Developers should focus on application instead of worrying about plumbing. When developers have to develop and test applications on virtual machines, they spend over 30% of their time dealing with installation, configuration and management of infrastructure stacks. Enterprises can substantially improve time-to-market by providing a pre-built, standardized and tested application platform to development teams empowering them with the resources to run enterprise applications.

There are several public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) options available today, but if you care about preventing vendor lock-in, or prefer to use private clouds for security and compliance reasons, then private PaaS will provide higher value than IaaS, or virtualized infrastructure such as VMware.

A private PaaS increases the ROI of the cloud by lowering the cost of infrastructure management, simplifying IT operations, and optimizing software license usage across departments.

By using CumuLogic Cloud Application Platform – a feature-rich platform with development, monitoring and management capabilities, enterprises can build a centralized standardized, multi-tenant cloud application platform for development, QA/test, staging and production environments.

Application developers can use either the self-service portal or a development API to deploy applications and manage the application lifecycle, reducing the burden on IT Ops to manage applications. IT managers have the flexibility to build a separate platform for each department or development team or business units if needed. Additionally, with CumuLogic platform, developers can write application infrastructure agnostic code, hence eliminating developer dependency on administrators for infrastructure configuration needs.

CumuLogic platform is built from the ground up to meet the needs of demanding enterprise deployments with the resiliency, monitoring and management of applications – entire sets of resources to keep applications running, including:

• True multi-tenant platform allows your enterprise to build a private PaaS.
• High-performance, customizable stack enables you to migrate existing applications to a public cloud, and at the same time, deploy distributed modern applications.
• Support for N-tier application topology allows the deployment of composite applications.
• Extensible framework for extending the platform to suite specific needs of an enterprise.
• Isolation of the application infrastructure from the application code eliminates the need for any point solutions traditionally required to maintain security and audits of the platforms.

CumuLogic platform supports multiple Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) vendor clouds and virtualized environments: Citrix CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenStack and VMware vSphere in private clouds, and Amazon EC2 and HP Cloud Services public clouds.

High Availability	CumuLogic platform has built-in high availability services which monitor the health and availability of all infrastructure services. CumuLogic platform supports provisioning on multiple clouds which helps developing highly resilient applications.
Multi-tenancy	CumuLogic platform provides your application with true multi-tenancy at all application tiers to help you achieve maximum utilization and cost efficiency.
Multi-cloud support	CumuLogic PaaS is cloud agnostic providing support for multiple IaaS clouds, thereby enabling organizations to run a consistent application infrastructure stack on more than one cloud, regardless of cloud type. This eliminates the fear of specific cloud vendor lock-in and provides the workload mobility.
Autoscaling	The built-in autoscaling engine allows applications to scale and maintain the desired application-level performance by scaling web, application and database tiers as needed. The autoscaling engine also allows users to set similar scaling policies on different IaaS clouds – public or private.
Monitoring	CumuLogic platform has built-in monitoring of the entire stack and applications, providing visibility into the utilization and performance through the Administration Console and Developer Dashboards. Integrated stack monitoring provides self-healing capabilities for the entire platform.
Metering	The metering feature allows you to track application usage so you can properly charge your organizational departments. Unlike any other cloud platforms, CumuLogic PaaS calculates the resource utilization by each application and provides a $/application cost metric making it easy to understand the actual cost of running an application.
APIs	CumuLogic platform provides a rich set of RESTful APIs for developers to manage the application lifecycle, including deployment, un-deployment, update and roll back to older versions of the application.

Use Cases

Developing Web, Mobile and HTML5 apps
Easy deployment of next generation of web, mobile and HTML5 applications.

Development/QA/Test/Development Environments
You can improve developer productivity and time-to-market by eliminating the need for developers to manage the underlying infrastructure.

Application Consolidation and Cloud Migration
Enterprises can use CumuLogic platform to consolidate siloed applications running on different servers and infrastructure stacks to a single standardized platform across the enterprise. This can help save over 30% of IT operations cost as documented by a major financial firm.