firstservis to distribute 3Tera’s cloud computing technology

Gavin Keeley, director and chief technology officer at firstservis, said it will work with resellers and providers of hosted services to help them sell and support the technology.

“3Tera's AppLogic operating system is a commercial platform designed specifically to enable utility computing,” he said.

“Using AppLogic, companies can convert their commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually deploy, operate and scale transactional Web applications without any modification of code.”

According to Keeley, the software 'packages', with the infrastructure required to run them, can run on any grid anywhere in the world.

Keeley said it gives infrastructure engineers on-demand management and higher levels of resource utilisation.

“As a result, applications become completely separated from the hardware infrastructure traditionally needed to run them, allowing users to remotely manage their applications through a Web browser and provision resources as needed,” claimed Keeley.

“Potential benefits for AppLogic resellers include improved margins, an opportunity to differentiate from their competitors and access to a new customer base."