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Sweet Caroline in the cloud
posted on 16 February 2008 09:10
Sun's SaaS offering
Sun is developing a cloud-based Software-as-a Service (SaaS) offering called Project Caroline. Details will be presented at Sun's JavaOne conference in May.
A PDF presentation (Project Caroline: Platform as a Service, at Your Service, for Your Service) about it by Sun distinguished engineer Bob Scheifler is dated May, 2007, and talks of Java virtual machines (VMs) running under Solaris with a Zettabyte File System (ZFS) backend accessed by NFS or through database access. The Caroline infrastructure will automaticaly scale resources up or down in respond to demand.
Developers have access to a programmatically configurable pool of virtualized compute, storage and networking resources.
Caroline is envisaged as providing the basic infrastructure for the emerging small and medium-sized SaaS providers. As such it will compete, if it is launched, with Amazon's S3 service and also, possibly, with whatever SaaS offering EMC brings to light.
Sun has tried offering comoputing facilities as grid-like utility services, offering raw compute or storage resources, before and these have not proved very popular.
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