Deutsche Telekom, Cisco Launch OpenStack IaaS Offerings

Deutsche Telekom, Cisco Launch OpenStack IaaS Offerings
Under the joint initiative, Deutsche Telekom said that it will deliver sovereign and highly secure services that meet Germany's strict data protection standards to business customers throughout the European region, starting with the delivery of …
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uStudio Video Platform Now Available on HP Helion OpenStack
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Mar 10, 2015) – Business video platform leader uStudio today announced that it has become the first video-as-a-service software to be made available to HP Helion customers as part of the newly launched HP Helion Ready …
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AURO Cloud Discussing Cloud Adoption in Canada and Deploying OpenStack
AURO's Lead Cloud Engineer Curtis Collicutt will be speaking about deploying OpenStack as simply as possible – the open-source cloud software platform that was founded by NASA and Rackspace. AURO's Chief Strategy Officer Matt McKinney will also be …
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Tesora Announces Enhancements to OpenStack DBaaS | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
"We're delivering on the highest priority requirements with failover for MySQL and the addition of MariaDB and PostgreSQL to the seven other database products that we already support in our OpenStack Trove implementation," said Ken Rugg, CEO of Tesora.
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Mirantis Expands OpenStack Offerings to Japan Market

Mirantis Expands OpenStack Offerings to Japan Market
Open source cloud computing vendor Mirantis has extended its reach into Japan, where it has already secured one channel partnership for its "pure-play" OpenStack distribution. The growth comes in the form of a subsidiary, called Mirantis Japan GK …
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OpenStack-as-a-Service: OpenStack to Gain Ground in 2015
“OpenStack is hot; and interest in containers is emerging [for company IT priorities in 2015],” says Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Red hat senior vice president. OpenStack is an open-source Apache-licensed cloud computing software platform. It is typically …
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Latest Openstack News

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Openstack Platform 6 en approche
Comme le précise le communiqué, en attendant l'annonce officielle jeudi, « Red Hat est un contributeur majeur d'OpenStack, et se positionne avec Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform comme chef de file du développement de solutions OpenStack …
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The OpenStack opportunity: so how big is it?
But back to OpenStack specifically. How much money are the dozens (and dozens) of self-proclaimed OpenStack companies making? As a gage of participation, the OpenStack Foundation has 8 Platinum members; 16 Golds and 87 Corporate Sponsors for a …
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IT pros to share data centre tips at 2015 summit
I'm also excited to be moderating a panel to discuss the value open source technology is bringing to cloud pundits via OpenStack. Representatives from Cisco Systems, Melbourne University, Telstra and Rackspace will debate the value of OpenStack versus …
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Percona Continues To Drive MySQL® And OpenStack Industry Agendas

Percona Continues To Drive MySQL® And OpenStack Industry Agendas
DURHAM, NC–(Marketwired) – Percona, the company that makes MySQL and OpenStack faster and more reliable, today highlighted its continued momentum during 2014, a record year for the company. Percona's products and services help companies …
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Apprenda Partners with Piston to Bring OpenStack Prowess to Private Platform
Piston CloudOS™ and Piston OpenStack™ software deliver compute, storage, networking and management through self-service interfaces and APIs, while Apprenda offers an enterprise-grade PaaS that greatly speeds up app and microservices development …
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AURO Enterprise Cloud Announces General Availability of Windows and Microsoft SQL Server on OpenStack Canadian Cloud Computing Platform


Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) January 06, 2015

AURO Cloud Computing, Canada’s leader in cloud computing and infrastructure running OpenStack, has announced the general availability of its Windows Server images for their Canadian Cloud Computing platform. The new images bring Windows Servers and Microsoft SQL Servers to AURO’s cloud built on OpenStack that delivers a highly scalable environment that is ideal for Windows Web Platform and web hosting. The update includes testing and developing applications and production-grade software as a service (SaaS) applications, with industry-best support for businesses and customers who are deploying Windows-based servers, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight and Internet Information Server (IIS).

With AURO Cloud Computing, you can run any compatible Windows-based solution in their highly reliable, cost effective, 100% Canadian cloud computing platform. Customers are able to manage their resources using open APIs, or utilize the cloud dashboard to configure, launch, or shut down Windows instances almost instantaneously. The initial set of Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server images are focused on supporting customers who are running web applications and get instant access to a Windows environment for application hosting, data processing, distributed testing and any other application that requires Windows software on an hourly basis.

“We’re constantly looking for ways to increase the flexibility and choices customers can find with our Canadian Cloud Computing platform. By adding Microsoft’s Server products, we are opening up the Canadian Cloud to businesses and enterprises who are ready to make the move into the cloud, but have been unable to, due to cloud limitations,” said Matt McKinney, Chief Strategy Officer at AURO. “Whether it is cloud onboarding, Windows Server support, or highly reliable cloud infrastructure, AURO focuses on making Canadian Cloud Computing available to everyone.”

AURO was built using OpenStack to give Canada its first true enterprise public cloud that can support a wide range of cloud computing requirements. With a free account, open APIs, Canadian cloud storage and enhanced management tools, customers can get immediate access to a single platform that delivers highly scalable public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud services, including operational and architectural compatibility with AWS. In addition, businesses have, for the first time, cloud computing pricing that matches or beats all other providers.

About AURO Enterprise Cloud

AURO creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on businesses, public organizations, and their customers. As Canada’s first true enterprise public cloud, AURO brings together the technical expertise to give everyone access to the cloud without the need to build complicated or expensive technologies. It’s easy to use, self-service and regardless of whether you’re a startup or an enterprise supporting multiple apps, the cloud is now available to everyone. AURO delivers a portfolio of services that include IT Infrastructure and Cloud Hosting, while giving users the benefits of Canada’s unique regulatory environment and data security, all within a 100% Canadian platform.

To learn more, visit http://www.auro.io/start or email sales at sales(AT)auro.io.







IBM adds 12 Cloud Data Centers, Endorses OpenStack Throughout

IBM adds 12 Cloud Data Centers, Endorses OpenStack Throughout
Cloud in general, and especially hybrid cloud, needs open standards This is driving unparalleled cooperation between the large vendors, and projects like OpenStack are where that cooperation is in plain sight. Vendors recognize that the value is not in …
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Red Hat, Huawei Partner on OpenStack for NFV
The two vendors want to combine Huawei's expertise with telecommunications companies with Red Hat's open-source and OpenStack capabilities to help service providers embrace OpenStack as they adopt network-functions virtualization (NFV) in their …
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Brocade Certifies Virtual Network Tool for Mirantis OpenStack
Networking solutions provider Brocade has deepened its integration and relationship with Mirantis and its OpenStack distribution. The company has certified its open source virtual network automation tool Fuel for use with Mirantis and has been ensuring …
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Who are the OpenStack Ambassadors?
With over 75 user groups in more than 50 countries around the world, OpenStack certainly isn't lacking for popularity, but these regional groups often need support and resources above and beyond what the small professional staff at the OpenStack …
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Service drawbacks hinder OpenStack adoption

Service drawbacks hinder OpenStack adoption
If you listen to what its supporters say, OpenStack dominates the open source cloud market and has a lot of momentum. Many large enterprises — including CERN, Intel, NASA, Yahoo, Comcast and Disney –run OpenStack in production. And all of the major …
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Landing your first contribution, OpenStack dominates open source cloud, and more
Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what's happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.
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Eight Important Facts About the OpenStack Cloud Platform

Eight Important Facts About the OpenStack Cloud Platform
The open-source OpenStack cloud platform serves multiple market segments and has users with different deployment models. The most popular deployment type for OpenStack is as an on-premises private cloud, according the recent OpenStack user survey, …
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Solutions Review for Cloud Platforms is Released with the Latest 2015 Buyer's
Solutions Review for Cloud Platforms is the latest news and information website covering solution updates, best practices and technology events happening in the cloud computing and platform industry. Topics around Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), …
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Telcos Tap Into Cloud Platforms
Developing the services and attaining the skills to meet the demands of enterprise users is challenging, but that's where cloud services and platform providers come in. Gartner Inc. predicts this fast-growing segment will account for 20% of all cloud …
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Google Collaborates with Equinix to Boost Cloud Platform
The partnership will enable Google to expand the reach of its cloud platform and provide private connectivity to corporate customers globally in an uncongested and cost-effective manner. Moreover, Equinix also helps to manage multiple connections …
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Oxford University launches cloud-based Digital Innovation Platform
The University of Oxford has launched a cloud-based open innovation platform to gather ideas from staff and students for new digital projects. Powered by Wazoku's Idea Spotlight, the Oxford Ideas platform will request ideas in response to specific …
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OpenDNS Unveils Security Platform, and Check Point, ZeroFOX Integrations
The San Francisco-based cloud network security service provider this week launched a security platform and application programming interfaces (APIs) aimed to provide businesses with advanced threat detection (ATD) capabilities both inside and outside a …
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ZNetLive Introduces OpenStack Based Public Cloud in India

ZNetLive Introduces OpenStack Based Public Cloud in India
ZNetLive's powerful cloud servers utilize open source OpenStack cloud platform to offer scalable RAM, CPU & storage on a pay-as-you-go hourly, resource usage based pricing model, thus fulfilling the needs of high performance applications and websites …
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SherWeb Launches High Performance Cloud Servers
Award-winning cloud services provider SherWeb today announced the highly anticipated official launch of its Performance Cloud, which has been available on a limited basis since May. Included in this announcement is SherWeb's most recent industry …
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How FortyCloud addresses cloud security: Q&A with CEO Amit Cohen
Amit Cohen (AC): When your organization is using public cloud IaaS, your (usually virtual) servers are located in one or several remote public cloud data-centers. The inherent security issue with this model is that, in the same way that you can access …
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Ubuntu Server 14.10 adds new features for OpenStack & containers

Ubuntu Server 14.10 adds new features for OpenStack & containers
logo-ubuntu_st_no®-black_orange-hex Canonical has just shipped Utopic Unicorn, the latest version of its Ubuntu Server operating system. And while it isn't quite the Promised Land of operating systems that the name suggests (there are no unicorns …
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What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack fever and an uneasy alliance
Shotgun wedding The battle for the enterprise cloud continues to heat up as players on both sides of the competitive divide step up their efforts to secure dominance in the future of corporate computing. Last week saw a shotgun wedding of sorts between …
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Stacking up Open Clouds
In this series of articles we'll first explore the business benefits of software-defined storage, take a look at OpenStack components designed to implement SDS models, and highlight several open-source storage backend technologies bringing enterprise …
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VMware's role in OpenStack: A second look
After reading my article examining Mirantis' release of Icehouse-based OpenStack 5.0, Dan Wendlandt, Director of Product Marketing for OpenStack at VMware, reached out to review his company's contributions to the OpenStack project and bring me up to …
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HP launches community edition of Helion OpenStack
Hewlett-Packard Co. has made good on an earlier promise to build and offer its own OpenStack distribution with the general release of its Helion OpenStack software. HP's Helion is based on the new Juno OpenStack release, and is offered alongside the …
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OpenStack breaks open the floodgates for big data in the cloud with Juno

OpenStack breaks open the floodgates for big data in the cloud with Juno
OpenStack logo The OpenStack Foundation unveiled the Juno release of its popular open source cloud stack on October 16 marking its 10th major release. The project features a number of new improvements and advances including the Sahara Data …
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EVIL patent TROLLS poised to attack OpenStack, says Linux protection squad
A group established to shield Linux from patent trolls has warned OpenStack will be the next big target for intellectual property hoarders. The Open Invention Network (OIN) reckons the open-source cloud is ripe for the plucking by trolls, who would …
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HP and Eucalyptus and OpenStack, oh my!

HP and Eucalyptus and OpenStack, oh my!
When Mickos first started talking about working with OpenStack he said, "OpenStack, in my view, is the all-embracing cloud project that various large and small vendors package for complex and highly customized deployments." Eucalyptus's stock in trade …
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This is what system administration in the open looks like
Elizabeth K. Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP, who works on the OpenStack Infrastructure team running a totally open source infrastructure built for OpenStack development. In her upcoming talk for All Things Open, she outlines the tools …
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OpenStack Founding Father McKenty Joins Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Team as CTO
Pivotal has landed major talent in the form of Joshua McKenty, a cloud visionary and one of the original creators of OpenStack. McKenty joins Pivotal as field CTO for Cloud Foundry, the popular open source Platform-as-a-Service. McKenty's fingerprints …
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HP leapfrogs Red Hat to become top contributor to OpenStack

HP leapfrogs Red Hat to become top contributor to OpenStack
Becoming the top contributor to OpenStack means different things to different people. For some, it amounts to bragging rights. Others may consider this a significant move for a company like HP to back a still-growing open source project like OpenStack.
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OpenStack Can Be 'Rosetta Stone' Of Cloud
To understand the significance of the consolidation of the cloud computing space over the past few weeks, we must first consider the historical context of OpenStack. We can then consider how these recent events have changed how OpenStack is positioned …
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AMD and Canonical create OpenStack in a rack
A few months ago, Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, had an unexpected hit on its hands: the Ubuntu Orange Box. This OpenStack cloud in a box, although made from consumer-grade components, was the star of May's OpenStack Summit.
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Red Hat Buys FeedHenry for Mobile Dev Capabilities for OpenStack and

Red Hat Buys FeedHenry for Mobile Dev Capabilities for OpenStack and
Red Hat said FeedHenry complements its vision for the future of application development by attracting mobile application development to its OpenStack and OpenShift cloud offerings. Red Hat made several strides into OpenStack this year, acquiring French …
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VMware prepares OpenStack for enterprise use
But enterprises are really struggling to do anything real in terms of building a production cloud that they can stand behind,” said John Gilmartin, of OpenStack. Gilmartin is VMware's vice president and general manager for the company's software …
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OpenStack automation with cloud deployment tools

OpenStack automation with cloud deployment tools
This is the first part in a series of three articles surveying automation projects within OpenStack, explaining what they do, how they do it, and where they stand in development readiness and field usage. Some of these projects, like Mistral for …
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CloudStack, losing to OpenStack, takes its ball and goes home
CloudStack is a clear alternative to OpenStack, which has won the market for open source cloud platforms. Of course, "won" is a relative term: OpenStack adoption remains low in a market largely dominated by commercial public cloud providers such as …
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Red Hat Counters VMware With OpenStack Software Appliance
As VMware announced an unexpected OpenStack distribution at VMworld, rival Red Hat launched a software appliance preloaded with OpenStack. The appliance is designed to give Red Hat customers an easier way to test drive Red Hat's version of the …
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StackStorm, Mirantis to Meld DevOps-Style IT Automation With OpenStack
StackStorm continues to expand its commitment to OpenStack, also becoming an official sponsor of the open source cloud software distribution. The company continues to build out partnerships to broaden the availability of its IT automation software.
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Latest Openstack News

VMware Embraces OpenStack And Docker — But The Devil Is In The Detail, The
The show saw many announcements but I want to delve into a couple in particular – the news that VMware is now supporting the Docker containerization approach and OpenStack (admittedly VMware did have an involvement with OpenStack previously by …
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HP offers OpenStack services offerings
As Tom Norton, HP's vice president of Helion Professional Services, said in a statement, "OpenStack technology is gaining traction in the enterprise, but the lack of in-house OpenStack expertise can be a barrier to realizing the technology's full …
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Cisco, Red Hat broaden partnership, eye integrated OpenStack systems
Under the partnership, Cisco's UCS gear will meld the company's platforms with Red Hat's OpenStack and open source distributions. OpenStack will be integrated with Cisco's UCS servers, Nexus switches and management software, dubbed UCS Director.
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Stacking up Open Clouds
OpenStack, as a community project, is not yet ready for the enterprise 'as-is'. However, like other popular open source community projects including Linux, there are companies, including Red Hat, that are making the community project into an enterprise …
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Deploy OpenStack via one of these options and skip a management headache
OpenStack is a framework that includes different components, including Swift (Storage), Nova (Compute), and Networking (Neutron); each component is basically a different open source project. Companies such as Piston Cloud take the complexity out of …
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OpenStack Is Your Community Hope For Open Source Cloud Servers

OpenStack Is Your Community Hope For Open Source Cloud Servers
OpenStack Is Your Community Hope For Open Source Cloud Servers

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network use of a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be easily provisioned and released with minimal administration effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and it is composed of 5 significant characteristics3 services models, and four deployment models. Cloud bursting is a technique used by hybrid clouds to supply additional sources to personal clouds on an as-needed basis. If the private cloud has the processing capacity to handle its workloads, the hybrid cloud is not used. When workloads exceed the private cloud’s capacity, the hybrid cloud automatically allocates additional sources to the private cloud.

Cloud systems instantly control and optimise resource use by leveraging a metering capacity at some level of abstraction appropriate for the type of services (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage may be supervised, controlled, and reported providing transparency for the supplier and customer of the utilized services.The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is out having its fifth major launch today, delivering new functions for clouds. OpenStack enjoys the support greater than 150 companies, including big names like Rackspace, Cisco, Dell, AT&T, Vexxhost and HP, most of whom are building clouds with OpenStack technologies The open source is perfect for the orchestration component if you have the functions you possessed with no vendor lock. The consumer never sees this abstraction like for instancea desktop running nix or windows.Open-Source is usually known, because it gives IT environments control of their own code plus a community of support. Open Source also liberates customers from licensing costs and supplies customization and flexibility. The field of open-source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) has 2 prominent players: CloudStack and OpenStack. Both offer options for turning an IT infrastructure right into a cloud platform capable of quickly adjusting to changing business needs


Cloud customers have various techniques to connect to cloud services in the form of API’s and interfaces. Software as a services (SaaS), On Demand software, web-based software-these are all terms for a similar thing: software that’s provided over the Internet instead of residing on your office computers. The question is whether or not web-based medical billing software is the right choice to your office. At the moment there’re very important standards and technology emerging for portability and interoperability for the cloud. It will take long time for those specifications to mature and be backed up by the majority of the providers. Until these standards are adhered cloud brokers will play an very important role in the overall cloud ecosystem. These cloud brokers will abstract the possibly incompatible capabilities and interfaces and supply a proxy in advance of the appearance of common and open specifications. Cloud platform services, whereby the computing platform (operating system and associated services) is delivered as a services on the internet by the supplier. For instance, an application development environment that may be subscribed to and used immediately.

Cloud infrastructure services, where a virtualised environment is delivered like a services over the Internet by the provider. The infrastructure can include servers, network equipment, and software. Cloud computing mandates that a dynamic pool of sources be available for provisioning. This is the primary way to deliver on-demand, pay-per-use, and elastic services. The fundamental pieces of cloud computing solutions are: compute resources, storage sources, and network sources. Additionally some solutions provide additional components such as a practical system, a service bus, or a distributed database — all made to support cloud computing. Cloud isn’t a technologies buzz word but rather a corporate strategy. It’s an opportunity to deliver functionally improved IT services to your enterprise. But then what hinders the adoption of cloud? Expensive, risks, vendor lock-in, data security, complex management and monitoring tools and stagnant features are some of the major barriers for businesses adopting cloud. Being an option to address those concerns, Open-Source has laid the foundation and has opened up the doors to low cost, customizable, and simple to deploy, manage, and monitor cloud solutions. The major companies around the globe today have migrated their business to open source cloud. The cloud supplier is responsible to provide a platform which the customers can build their systems. They provide having a runtime environment as well being an integrated app stack. It allows developers to quickly create and deploy custom applications on the offered platforms with no need to build the facilities. The cloud supplier provides the entire infrastructure and its servicing to its customers.

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