UShareSoft Announces UForge 3.6, Best Unified Application Center for Hybrid IT Infrastructures

GRENOBLE, France and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- UShareSoft today announced new releases of its cloud application delivery products, UForge AppCenter 3.6 and UForge Marketplace 3.1. UShareSoft continues to build significant momentum in the market, with new initiatives in place including the AppHub European open source marketplace, new global distribution partners such as Crayon, and new customers including the Talend Exchange Marketplace.

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"2015 has been an excellent year so far for UShareSoft. We're gaining huge market traction in both Europe and Asia, signing several new partners and winning customers over our competitors in both regions. 2016 is shaping up to be another great year," said Alban Richard, CEO, UShareSoft.

UForge AppCenter 3.6—for building new cloud-native applications or migrating existing applications with no recoding—and UForge Marketplace 3.1—for self-service application delivery to end users through an enterprise app store or cloud marketplace—include a raft of new features such as Docker support, Windows server migration to any cloud, a slicker user interface and support for 3^rd-party plugins.

Deployed on premise, the UForge platform provides a single application hub for building, migrating, delivering and governing VMs and containers for bare metal servers, virtualized datacenters and major public and private clouds including Apache CloudStack, AWS, Ikoula, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Outscale, VMware and many more. This hybrid support, combined with fully automated delivery processes, DevOps integration and self-service access to applications, allows enterprises to move easily to ITaaS environments and bridge the gap between infrastructure, application and operations teams.

"Hybrid cloud is not about moving IT workloads between clouds. The importance of hybrid lies in enabling enterprises to easily allocate those workloads to their "best execution venue"," said William Fellows, research vice president, 451 Research. "Tools such as UShareSoft's let enterprises move their focus away from the underlying infrastructure towards IT as a service implementations that support business goals.

UForge AppCenter 3.6
New features and enhancements in UForge AppCenter 3.6 include:

Improved User Interface

• New user interface: new HTML 5 graphical interface provides users with more intuitive visual design and modeling of their application templates

Fully Agnostic Platform

• Docker Support: allowing users to create repeatable templates and base images for Docker and LXC environments with full software governance, taking the number of supported formats to more than 25
• Support for cloud-init: to help simplify and accelerate the provisioning of machine images on supported clouds
• Expanded cloud format support: new command line tool and API set allow cloud providers to quickly add multiple cloud formats, in their own brands, based on supported IaaS and CMP platforms
• Expanded server support: already supporting x86-based servers, users can now create application templates for ARM servers
• Support for new operating systems: users can now create application templates based on Pidora and Raspian operating systems for the ARM architecture. UShareSoft already supports 10 different operating systems (current and previous versions of Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2)

Windows Server Migration

• Windows server migration: expanded migration support goes beyond existing Linux server migration, now enabling users to deep scan a Windows server then create a new machine image ready for migration to cloud

Improved Software Templating

• Repository management: new command line tool and API set allow platform administrators to dynamically register custom or third-party repositories to the platform
• Multi-NIC support: Enables customers to support several network interfaces within a VPN or externally
• Software component improvements: now allows users to import their own software directly from GitHub or from a URL, as well as uploading from a local repository
• Uniform search interface: support for the commonly-used FIQL language simplifies search processing and offer users a unified search experience

3^rd Party Plugins

• New event-driven service: enables customers and 3^rd parties to create plugins to extend the software business logic and connect with external IT services, including support ticketing, bug tracking, CRM and more

UForge Marketplace 3.1
New features and enhancements in UForge Marketplace 3.1 include:

• Flexible billing integration: offering the choice between a "ready-to-run" billing system which ships with the Marketplace, or integration of their own existing billing processes via APIs
• Identity authorization: Simplify identity management by using an external identity authority for user authentication and authorization.
• Integration with SaaS platforms: enables customers and 3^rd parties to create plugins to extend the marketplace business logic and connect with external IT services including reporting, payment and billing plugins, or integration with CRM and other SaaS IT services
• Uniform search interface: support for the commonly-used FIQL language simplifies search processing and offer users a unified search experience
• Enhanced product listings: including the ability to add screenshots and other visuals to vendor product listings
• Multi-level categories: allowing platform administrators to create multi-level categories of products within the marketplace or app store to reflect complex product taxonomies

"AppHub, the European open source marketplace, is based on UShareSoft's UForge AppCenter and Marketplace products," said Peter Deussen, Project Coordinator, AppHub. "Using the AppCenter, European open source projects can quickly assemble their software as a "ready-to-run" application template which is then exposed through an online marketplace allowing end users to easily choose and deliver the software to cloud."

"We're working with UShareSoft to distribute UForge AppCenter and UForge Marketplace to over 1,400 cloud provider partners throughout Europe," said Mike Vilain, Vice President xSP Hosting, Crayon. "We see a real market need for both products to help providers accelerate the adoption of their cloud infrastructure, improve their competitive position, and develop their own ecosystem." 

"We launched our Hybrid Cloud Toolbox based on the UForge AppCenter earlier in the year. Using the Toolbox, our Public Cloud customers can migrate their software more quickly and we're now rolling it out to customers of our managed infrastructure and other services," said Jules Henri Gavetti, CEO, Ikoula.

"We're using UShareSoft's technology to speed up software onboarding and migration to our enterprise-class cloud. UForge AppCenter lets us easily manage our own cloud infrastructure templates, as well as allowing us to expose white-label services to our customers to quickly scale our public cloud business," said Laurent Seror, CEO, Outscale

"We recently launched a brand new Talend Exchange, our global add-on hub for Talend Integration Cloud and Studio products, using UShareSoft's UForge Marketplace," said Laurent Bride, CTO, Talend. "Our ISV ecosystem partners and overall community can now share their Talend extensions far more quickly, enabling them to get to end users faster."

About UShareSoft

UShareSoft helps cloud providers, enterprises and ISVs build, ship, migrate and govern applications for virtual datacenters and public, private or hybrid clouds. UShareSoft offers UForge AppCenter, an end-to-end application delivery platform for hybrid IT; UForgeNow, an online SaaS platform offering full AppCenter functionality; and UForge Marketplace, a dynamic platform for building cloud software marketplaces and enterprise app stores. UShareSoft has headquarters in Europe and offices in the United States and Japan. Visit: www.usharesoft.com. Follow: twitter.com/usharesoft

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