ConPaaS team to launch ConPaaS-1.1
ConPaaS team to launch ConPaaS-1.1
2013, February 4, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Contrail consortium have launched Contrail PaaS (ConPaaS) release 1.1. Until ConPaaS, considerable system administrator skills were needed to deploy applications in the Cloud. ConPaaS simplifies the way applications can be started and managed in the Cloud. With ConPaaS, deploying applications making full use of the capabilities of the Cloud requires only a few mouse clicks.
ConPaaS provides a collection of scalable, Cloud-ready services for hosting various types of applications. The previous release 1.0 already supported PHP, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop and TaskFarming services. Release 1.1 completes this with the XtreemFS POSIX file system service which allows ConPaaS applications to share data through files as in a single local machine.
Other major improvements are the introduction of the ConPaaS director which allows users to control their ConPaaS services entirely using command-line tools. This simplifies things for advanced developers and allows them to automate a number of common operations. Also, application developers can now fully configure their services by providing start-up scripts to be executed automatically on newly created virtual machines.
About the Contrail project:
Consortium partners of the Contrail Project are: CNR, Italy; Constellation Technologies, Great Britain; Genias Benelux, The Netherlands; Hewlett-Packard Italiana s.r.l., Italy; Inria, France; Linagora, France; STFC, Great Britain; Tiscali Italia, Italy; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Xlab, Slovenia; ZIB, Germany. Contrail is partially funded by the FP7 Programme of the European Commission under Grant Agreement FP7-ICT-257438.
http://contrail-project.eu
Information of ConPaaS is available at: http://conpaas.eu
Note for the editors:
For additional information on this press release you can contact Genias Benelux, mr. Ad Emmen: emmen[{at]}genias.nl or +31 6 5362 2098.
You can also contact the Contrail project partner in your country.
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