jclouds and Libcloud add CloudSigma coverage

jclouds and Libcloud add CloudSigma coverage

Zürich, Wednesday 25 January 2011 CloudSigma AG, the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider based in Switzerland, today announced inclusion in the jclouds and Libcloud interoperability standards. Customers of CloudSigma can now develop cloud infrastructure based on either standard and deploy it seamlessly across multiple clouds including CloudSigma, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, GoGrid and many more.

Patrick Baillie, CEO commented ‘A key tenet of our approach has always been delivering on the promise of open computing in the cloud. We very much see IaaS modeled around a utility delivery model; a fundamental aspect of this is customer mobility and interoperability. Our inclusion in the jclouds and Libcloud platforms forms part of our general commitment and strategy to reduce friction between public IaaS clouds.’

The rapid emergence of cloud computing over the last few years has spawned a divergent field of vendors each offering their own version of IaaS. A significant concern registered by potential cloud computing users has been vendor lock-in. CloudSigma has created a unique FTP gateway allowing complete data portability, inclusion within the Jclouds and Libcloud standards addresses cloud architectural and API aspects of potential vendor lock-in.

jclouds and Libcloud, defining standards for IaaS

Both jclouds and Libcloud have gained significant traction within the IaaS space amongst leading vendors. The ability for customers to manage multiple proprietary clouds through single interfaces has proved very attractive. Developing software that can be flexibly deployed across a large number of disparate clouds retains customer flexibility and vendor independence.

For example jclouds allows users to control multiple clouds using a common interface, as well as hooks to perform CloudSigma-specific commands when customers need them. While jclouds is a library, there are command-line tools available that use jclouds. For example, it is possible to setup clusters like Hadoop with Whirr or design and manage custom environments with Pallet. jclouds represents a highly inclusive standard.

Combining Standards with Innovation

As a company CloudSigma is committed to combining innovation with inclusive standards. Although both aims might seem contradictory, CloudSigma aims to reconcile both by combining compatibility with cross-platform standards with new innovative opt-in features that are CloudSigma specific.

Patrick Baillie, CEO continued “Standards have an important role to play in driving cloud adoption. Customers need to be able to move between vendors in a friction free manner. On the other hand standards can entrench old practices and limit innovation; that is why we are so excited to be working with jclouds and Libcloud. With jclouds for example, customers can use standardised and innovative features of our cloud through the same cross-platform interface.”

For More Information

jclouds: http://www.jclouds.org
jclouds CloudSigma quickstart guide: View here.
Libcloud: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/
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About jclouds

jclouds is an OSS Java framework for cloud enablement and inter-cloud integration. jclouds uses an API based approach to connect tools/services via a REST-based model. jclouds helps tools and services to connect to cloud services using a consistent integration pattern and configuration with adjustable library dependencies.

About Libcloud

libcloud is a client library for interacting with popular cloud server providers. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services that it supports. libcloud was originally created by the folks at Cloudkick but has since grown into an independent free software project licensed under the Apache License (2.0).

About CloudSigma AG

CloudSigma AG, based in Zürich, Switzerland provides a pure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform offering high security, flexible cloud servers. Our innovative web console as well as API are designed to make cloud computing and cloud hosting straightforward. High availability redundant infrastructure is backed up by a generous Service Level Agreement that covers not only availability but also performance.

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About Patrick Baillie

Patrick is co-founder of CloudSigma, and comes from a career working in Investment Banking Technology, as well as having previously ran his own business.