CumuLogic PaaS Tests Amazon Private Cloud Model

CumuLogic, which has developed a private platform as a service (PaaS) for Java, has begun testing a strategy to emulate the Amazon model of private clouds for its own use.

The CEO of Santa Clara, California-based CumuLogic, Mike Soby, said: “We've learned that although the market for PaaS is still evolving, customers really want a choice in how they consume services and how they consume cloud services. That led us to look at what Amazon was doing and understand those success factors. We did a fairly significant pivot away from the notion of PaaS-only and toward the notion of open cloud services. If you look at the Amazon model, the modularity and ease-of-use makes a big difference to their customers.”

The new product, Platform 2.0, will be enhanced by CumuLogic with the intent of copying those advantages for the private cloud, providing containers, databases, load-balancing, caching and other similar functionalities. Soby stated: “Users can describe what they want and then have the platform go do it for them. So what we've done is to deconstruct this in a modular way and offer a suite of cloud services that work for any cloud and provide the user modular choices that can be managed from a single-pane console.”

Both enterprise and service provider markets are being targeted by the company, and Soby commented that the beta testing of CumuLogic’s product moves will be ideal for the channel.

He added: “These organizations are trying to figure out how to sell up the stack and sell more services to differentiate themselves. So with our platform, they can light up all these services based on their needs. It's a very compelling value proposition that helps channel partners move beyond compute and disk toward a higher level of services. They can private label it and use it as a foundation for building hybrid clouds.”

Following the completion of the 90-day beta testing trial, pricing will be adjusted depending on the model. Soby explained: “When working with service providers, we charge for initial integration and then do a revenue share to make it very frictionless. On the enterprise side, we are pricing it as an annual licensing model.”

Last summer a private PaaS was released for Java, and from then the strategy of the company began to change. Customers of CumuLogic began advancing towards a shared services delivery model which aims to attract the attention of ITaaS, and it was noted that this move aligned with a growth in the need for a suite of scalable, on-demand services for use in private and hybrid clouds. Therefore, the company revised its roadmap to meet that end.

Soby added: “We believe the future of enterprise IT is going to evolve to everything as a  service, and we want to help our customers take that journey. A full road map of cloud services will be coming soon.” (CY) Link