WSO2 Steps into Cloud

This week, WSO2 has announced there cloud offerings introducing the Cloud SOA platform. With this we (WSO2) enters into cloud computing...

Cloud platform that WSo2 provides mainly consists of three variations; which are;

• Cloud Virtual Machines
• Cloud Connectors
  
• Cloud Services

First of all lets take a look at the Cloud Virtual Machines. They are basically hardened virtual machines pre configured to be run on the cloud with auto scaling to fit into your load. This will be very cost effective since you pay it as you go, but still providing the production support insurance.

You may try out those as Amazon EC2 images or may be you can run them on your own as VMware images or Linux KVM images.

You should have been at least worring once in your life being not able to provide a third party access the service running on your laptop, since you are under a NAT. Well the second solution that WSO2 provides addresses this issue with a Cloud Connector which is the Cloud Services Gateway which enables you to just expose the service running on WSAS or ESB instance on your personal desktop/laptop connected to the internet, even though the third party cannot access your machine.

Another Cloud Connector will accelarate the security processing by delegating that bit to a virtual machine optimized to perform security which is called the Cloud Service Accelarator.

The final option (for the time being) is the Cloud Services, you may have heard the term "as a Service" much more frequently these days. So WSO2 exposes its Governance solution as a service naming it GaaS (Governance as a Service).

It will be very interesting for you to try out GaaS online.

We are not done yet, stay tuned for the next step towards the cloud; As a hint I would say IdaaS is coming soon. Guess what it is.... :-)

All the above will form the WSO2 Cloud Middleware, whcih will be the onestop shop for all your cloud requirements... Stay tuned...


Want to know more and more, yeah! join Paul Fremantle for the free Webinar on Cloud and SOA: A revolution for the enterprise on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 from 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM (PST).