June 21, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – 3Tera, Inc. (www.3tera.com), the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, has announced support for Sun’s Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) and the OpenSolaris™ operating system in the 2.3 Beta release of its award winning AppLogic™ grid operating system. Inclusion of the Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris is the first step of delivering a complete Web services solution stack based on Sun products to be incorporated into the Cloudware™ architecture, announced earlier this year.
"AppLogic technology and 3Tera’s business model of working with leading data center operators has demonstrated the ability to make world class cloud computing infrastructure widely available, removing barriers for companies of all sizes to adopt leading edge infrastructure for their business," said Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of global market development and engineering, Sun Microsystems. "Adding Solaris support to AppLogic allows companies to tap into Sun’s proven network computing expertise and rich development community to build and deploy highly scalable, high performance Web applications and services."
"Sun's proven infrastructure software powers many of the most sophisticated online delivery environments", said Peter Nickolov, president and CTO, 3Tera, Inc. "Our announcement today is the next step in delivering on our Cloudware architecture announced earlier this year, providing an open cloud computing environment where users can leverage the best software technology available. Clearly Solaris is an important part of that solution."
"AppLogic has allowed us to deliver new on-demand services and attract new customers while decreasing the complexity of our operations and support," said Todd Abrams, president and COO, Layered Technologies, one of 3Tera's major hosting partners and partner in the Sun Startup Essentials program. "Adding Solaris to our AppLogic powered services will empower both enterprises and Web 2.0 startups to rapidly deliver new services and explore the extreme scale and flexibility of cloud computing infrastructures quickly and easily."
