Global cloud vendor Jelastic arrives in Australia

Cloud platform management vendor Jelastic has entered the Australian market through a new partnership with Perth web hosting company Fast Hit.

“We've considered a number of management tools for our cloud hosting product line. Jelastic is a clear winner for us and for our customers," said Fast Hit managing director Chris Bauer.

Jelastic's technology allows users to manage web and data tiers of application environments in the cloud without "server administration skills and time investment to maintain a secure cloud", according to the vendor.

The US company's offering is described at a high level as platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service using "containers virtualisation". The company claims a 150,000-strong developer population using the technology through "50 private and public cloud providers around the world".

Jelastic also boasts among its advisors key former Microsoft developer Mark Zbikowski, who worked on Windows 2000, XP and Vista. The company also has the founder of Parallels as well as James Gosling, the "father of Java" among its endorsers.

“We're excited to kick-off our partnership with Fast Hit and thrilled to finally penetrate the Australian market," said Jelastic co-founder and chief executive Ruslan Synytsky. "Our alliance with Fast Hit further validates Jelastic's ongoing commitment to deliver a superior container-Based PaaS and IaaS solution in dynamic, high-growth technology regions, such as Australia and Asia-Pacific."

Jelastic announced that it "provides unique vertical scaling for all application containers with load spikes and variable loads in general" that results in "the ability to scale up and down stateful apps, legacy apps and apps that were not designed for horizontal scaling, resulting in transparent pricing for end customers".

Data centre operator NextDC also revealed at the same time that Fast Hit runs its infrastructure out of NextDC's P1 Perth data centre.

Jelastic stated that it supports "popular programming languages such as Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET" and offers "a wide choice of software stacks by default, plus Docker and Cartridges templates, plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans IDEs and other technologies integrated inside".

The privately owned Fast Hit was established in 2003 and offers "managed hosting, network outsourcing, cloud servers and data centre space" out of data centres in Perth and Sydney.