MuleSoft Announces Cloudcat -- Enterprise Tomcat in the Cloud
First Commercially Supported Apache Tomcat Offering, Delivered in the Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - February 9, 2010) - MuleSoft, the Web Middleware Company,
today announced Cloudcat, the industry's first cloud service offering of Apache
Tomcat. Cloudcat is a fully-supported virtual image that allows developers
and QA to build and test today's connected Web applications easily in the
cloud. IT operations can expand the capacity of their data center on demand
by using Cloudcat during peak demand times or as a cheaper alternative to
hosting Tomcat on a physical internal server. Cloudcat is immediately
available as a
cloud service on Amazon Web Services and GoGrid.
With over 70% penetration in the enterprise datacenter, the open source
Apache Tomcat has grown to become the world's most widely used web
application server due to its lightweight simplicity. While many
organizations are turning to
cloud platforms as a way to expand their data center capacity, there
are currently no supported virtual images of Tomcat available in the cloud
for use by IT organizations. Until now, using Apache Tomcat in the cloud
required manual installation and configuration of Tomcat, in addition to
installation of other required software.
"Apache Tomcat is ideal for use in a cloud environment as it does not
require the complex infrastructure often needed by legacy Java EE
application servers," said Jason Brittain, lead architect at Mulesoft, and
co-author of "Tomcat: The Definitive Guide." "However, until now there has
been no easy way to use Tomcat in the cloud without doing a lot of manual
work related to installation and configuration. By using a preconfigured Apache
Tomcat image like Cloudcat, developers and operations professionals can
deploy and test their web applications in the cloud rapidly and without the
capital investment of buying and housing a physical server. We designed
Cloudcat to give users the ability to focus on testing and deploying their
applications rather than spending time on infrastructure setup and
support."
Features and benefits of Cloudcat include:
For developers and QA:
-- Simple and painless provisioning of Cloudcat for developing and testing
Tomcat applications
-- Familiar deployment model -- deploy applications to Cloudcat just as you
would to a local Tomcat server
-- In-depth diagnostics of Cloudcat runtime from MuleSoft Tcat Server console
-- Integration with Apache Maven for continuous integration between dev and
test
-- Integration with Tcat Server REST APIs for management and control
For Tomcat administrators:
-- Enterprise support -- rapid problem resolution and troubleshooting for
mission-critical applications
-- On-demand runtime capacity for Tomcat applications
-- Detailed diagnostics of Cloudcat runtime from Tcat Server console
-- Configuration consistency between Cloudcat and local Tomcat servers
-- Remote restart capabilities
Availability and pricing
Cloudcat includes Apache Tomcat with MySQL on Linux and is available in
both 32-bit and 64-bit images. Cloudcat is currently available as a cloud
service on both GoGrid and Amazon Web Services.
Pricing models for each service are as follows:
Cloudcat Amazon Edition -- starting at 30 cents per hour (including EC2
infrastructure fees); Canonical Ubuntu Linux build with MuleSoft support
Cloudcat GoGrid Edition -- starting at $29 per month; RHEL Linux build with
GoGrid and MuleSoft support
For more information or to download, please visit www.mulesoft.com.
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visit http://www.mulesoft.com/careers.
About MuleSoft
MuleSoft is the Web Middleware
Company, providing enterprise-class software based on the world's most
popular open source application infrastructure products, Mule ESB and Apache
Tomcat. With Mule ESB, Tcat
Server and iBeans, MuleSoft brings an ideal combination of simplicity and
power to today's web applications. Its products boast more than 1.5 million
downloads and over 2,000 production deployments by leading organizations
such as Walmart.com, Nestlé, Honeywell and DHL, as well as 5 of the world's
top 10 banks. MuleSoft is headquartered in San Francisco with offices
worldwide.
For more information: www.mulesoft.com, or email info@mulesoft.com.
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