Sensible Cloud - Leaders in Cloud Computing

sense is a cloud application platform family to leverage SOA, JEE and cloud based services and computing resources, allowing business managers to define policies and priorities of how they wish to assign runtime computing resources to individual or pools of business applications based on their own business criteria.

sense operates with existing application platforms (JEE, Java, Web Services, SOA, ESB, etc) and extends them to cloud based computing platforms like Amazon EC2 and Virtualization solutions from vendors like Xen, VMware and Hewlett Packard.

Key capabilities and benefits of sense include:

• (XML) business defined policies indicate rules for resource assignment and priorities in the face of peak loads and unexpected performance degradation – sense guarantees your business SLAs
• Federated service publication with self-discovery within the sense domain – all sense nodes and services are aware of the state of the entire domain
• Almost unlimited scaling when business applications and services are extended to include cloud based resources like Amazon – use pay-as-you-go to bypass capital expenditure to get new operating platform up and running in hours
• Guaranteed reliability and performance policies are defined by business managers with sense automatically adjusting and aligning appropriate resources from the most ‘healthy’ servers available - your most valuable business applications get the best attention and resources
• Multiple platform execution and multi-protocol communication between nodes within (and potentially across) the sense domain(s) - eliminates single-point-of-failure, including sense itself
• Intelligent service routing to the most effective platform to execute the service – makes sure your most valuable services are directed to the best provider platform available to match the required SLA
• Services can be distributed across multiple platforms to support reliability and scalability with zero impact to the client business application(s) - guaranteed scalability and reliability from day one, with no capital outlay
• Runtime business SLA (service level agreements) implemented by business managers – transparent visibility and control by business of which applications receive what computing resources

We have looked at the leading Virtualization server providers and extended the sense cloud application platform to two Virtualization technology providers.

Xen and VMWare are the leading Virtualization server providers today, and offer best in class performance for both servers and operating systems together with the highest degree of management functionality. So, while every modern operating system can be virtualized with industry-leading performance, they all suffer for being disconnected from a business approach to scaling.

The sense virtualization platform compliments existing Virtualization servers.  Built on sense the sense virtualization platform federates VMs to;

• extend VMs to both traditional JEE infrastructure and to cloud computing resources (like Amazon EC2 and others) – you can operate a virtual pool of resources across multiple platform types
• add critical business constraints on how the VMs are scaled to satisfy defined _business SLA_s – this lets you add business conditions for scaling VM resources to the technical criteria generally available from today’s _virtualization servers_

The role of Sensible Cloud’s innovative cloud application platform sense, is to match the business layers of an agreement (Business SLA) with the physical layer of a virtualized platform, by instantiating the right number and quality of VMs depending on defined business rules, and maintaining a consistent and real time catalogue of what “hardware” in the cloud is available to operate a new VM instance.

sense virtualization platform

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