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Sun Microsystems unveils Open Cloud Platform
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 19 March 2009, 22:59 IST
India: In a bid to establish its footprint in the cloudcomputing domain, where Amazon enjoys a huge share, Sun Microsystems, a networking solution provider has unveiled its Sun Open Cloud Platform, the company's open cloud computing infrastructure. The Sun Cloud Storage Service supports WebDAV protocols for easy file access and object store APIs that are compatible with Amazon's S3 APIs.
"Sun's Open Cloud platform is the first step in delivering on our vision of a world that has many clouds that are both open and interoperable," said Dave Douglas, Senior Vice President, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems. The company also opened the release of a core set of Open APIs. Cloud Foundry, RightScale and Zmanda are three of the many cloud application providers, cloud management solution providers, service providers and cloud consulting companies partnering with Sun. Eucalyptus, an open source infrastructure for implementing cloud computing, is also supporting Sun's
With the Sun Open Cloud Platform, Sun is driving a paradigm shift away from proprietary clouds that limit choice and lock in customers toward a world of open and interoperable clouds. At the core of the Sun Cloud Compute Service are the Virtual Data Center (VDC) capabilities acquired in Sun's purchase of Q-layer in January 2009.
