.NET Developers Gain App Portability
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By using Uhuru .NET
Services for Cloud Foundry together with Cloud Foundry Windows, .NET developers
also gain application portability. Developers will be able to easily move their
software from one cloud service to another with no modifications. Uhuru .NET
Services for Cloud Foundry does not lock users in to one vendor. Users are free
to select the most appropriate cloud service from among the many competing
providers. Private and public clouds are also both supported with Uhuru .NET
Services for Cloud Foundry.
And the Uhuru product
enables users to take existing .NET apps and move them to the cloud unmodified.
"One of the test cases was to take a .NET app and without any changes
deploy it to the VMware cloud," Khaki said. "We were able to do this
with Umbraco." Umbraco is an open-source content management system (CMS)
platform for publishing content on the Web and intranets. It is written in C#
and deployed on Microsoft-based infrastructure.
Charles Fitzgerald,
platform strategist at VMware, told eWEEK
the beauty of the VMware approach with Cloud Foundry as opposed to cloud
computing platforms such as Microsoft's Windows Azure is: "We offer a much
more open environment to give people a broader choice of clouds, frameworks and
a range of application services where we're not locking people in. That's
pretty powerful. Most of the other solutions out there have significant
constraints on one or more axes."
Moreover, Khaki said
Uhuru understands the challenges facing IT managers and developers. The Uhuru
executive team's first-hand experience managing IT departments and .NET
development teams inspired them to create Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud
Foundry. Khaki spent 20 years at Microsoft, where he worked on projects such as
Windows NT, and left in 2009 with the title of corporate vice president. Jawaid
Ekram, co-founder and COO of Uhuru, also worked at Microsoft, where he was a
general manager responsible for Global Foundations Services and Live Meeting
Services.
"Uhuru's vision
is to bring the best of .NET and Open Source together," Ekram said in a
statement. "In today's announcement we are taking the first step in
offering open source capabilities to .NET developers, so they can benefit from
the agility and flexibility that cloud computing offers. We plan to offer
additional services to enhance both the .NET and the open source community in the
future."
"We are
delighted to see Uhuru's contribution of .NET support for Cloud Foundry,"
said Tod Nielsen, co-president of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, in a
statement. "There is significant demand from .NET developers to move their
applications to the cloud, and with .NET support for Cloud Foundry, they will
be able to deploy and scale both new and existing .NET applications with ease."
Khaki said he
believes there is a large pent-up demand for a solution such as Uhuru's to take
.NET apps to the cloud. Fitzgerald said this is because Microsoft's Azure has
failed.
"Azure has
failed to catch on with .NET developers," Fitzgerald said. "The .NET
Framework may be the second most popular framework in the world, and a number
of companies are trying to figure out how to move their .NET apps to the cloud.
Microsoft has sort of blown it with Azure. Azure has not caught on. From a
purely developer perspective, the .NET support in Azure is not .NET; it's a
mutant dialect that gets you locked into Azure."
Uhuru .NET Services
for Cloud Foundry was built with a focus on providing a full-service product
that accommodates and enhances the .NET user's environment. The product
integrates with Windows and provides support for Visual Studio, MMC, SQL
Server-all the systems that developers and administrators use as part of their
daily work. Uhuru will continue to leverage its expertise in Microsoft Windows
and developer tools to evolve the Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud Foundry as
the premier .NET Cloud Foundry solution.
