Skydera Launches Cloud Automation Platform

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Skydera, a centralized platform to manage multiple cloud environments, announced the beta release today. The Skydera management console provides a single intuitive interface to manage servers, deploy applications, control user access, track usage, and centralize billing. The platform is differentiated by equal support of all distinct features provided by Amazon, Rackspace, GoGrid, and Slicehost cloud environments, as well as the ability to manage internal hypervisor environments (private clouds). As part of the beta, Skydera is offering a special Skydera CloudStart™ program, where the first 100 SMBs to register on the bottom right at www.skydera.com will receive free unlimited access to the platform for three months.

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The Skydera platform looks to address the needs of both enterprises and fast growth businesses with the following feature set:

• Pre-created server images and templates for all public and private cloud environments,
• Automatic scaling of compute, storage and network resources based on demand and rule sets,
• Unified billing reports, showing up-to-the-minute analytics of daily, weekly and monthly operating costs,
• Integrated analytics of performance and utilization with the ability to add custom names for managed assets,
• Support for both public and private virtual local area networks (VLANs), allowing enterprises to create their own virtual private cloud,
• Sophisticated user permissions and reporting that restricts cloud asset usage based on roles, supporting remote administration,
• Disaster discovery options with failover capability across any cloud environment,
• Automatic monitoring of Service Level Agreement violations,
• Both an SaaS and on premise installation model,
• Advanced services, including VPNs, virtual private clouds and data replication,
• Cost effective "pay-as-you-go" pricing for SMBs, and annual licensing contracts for Enterprise customers.

"Skydera addresses the top four concerns inhibiting cloud adoption as reported by analysts such as IDC," says Skydera Founder and CEO Lecole Cole. "We will enable companies to deploy enterprise-level applications securely within private clouds, virtual private clouds and public clouds while directly addressing security, availability, performance and cost management concerns."

"Skydera's platform surpasses other cloud automation solutions and is even ahead of systems like IBM Tivoli, CA Spectrum Automation Manager, and BMC's BladeLogic Suite in many ways," says Jim Kaskade, GM and Chief of Cloud for data center software provider, SIOS Technology. "We've deployed the Skydera platform and believe its support for both on-premise virtualized and public cloud environments is what enterprises need. It's extremely lightweight and easily extended and/or integrated through a robust API."

Skydera platform development began in 2008 as a result of a direct need to manage across cloud environments. The company is a graduate of the Founder Institute.

For more information, visit www.skydera.com.

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