3Tera expands cloud computing network

3Tera has announced the availability of global cloud services, based on 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system. Driven by demand from multi-national customers and customers outside the United States, 3Tera has selected partners to offer cloud solutions on four continents and provide redundant online resources worldwide. 3Tera currently has partners and is running in data centers in seven countries (United States, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Serbia) on four continents (North America, South America, Asia, and Europe), with additional resources in South America and Australia soon to be available as well.

The global offering allows customers to choose their location and expand or move to different regions as their business demands, without having to change a single line of code in their applications. Applications close to the customer's base provides optimal performance by avoiding latency.

Also, the ability to duplicate and migrate applications globally eliminates many cross border regulatory issues and replaces lengthy, costly legal processes with simple drag-and-drop operations that can be completed in minutes.

"On-demand services, offered from a single data center, lack many of the benefits of cloud computing," said Barry X. Lynn, Chairman and CEO, 3Tera. "The cloud should be in multiple data centers in order to provide real high availability, redundancy and disaster recovery for users' applications. Furthermore, when those data centers are dispersed globally, applications can be moved to different geographical locations if and when needed."

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•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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