3tera

3tera is developing Cloudware, an architecture for Cloud Computing without compromise. It is intended to provide an open framework allowing the development of a cloud computing environment that's rigorous enough to take on any web or enterprise application. 3tera's flexible architecture empowers customers to build and run large-scale applications in the cloud without compromising their choices of operating system, middleware, security, location, architecture and vendors.

Cloudware is composed of four main elements, which are:

• Resource Pools: provide raw compute power, storage and network connectivity to applications running in the cloud. The resource pools are controlled by the Infrastructure Delivery Network via web services interfaces.
• Global Catalog: It is a worldwide distributed catalog service where various publishers can make their appliances, architectures and applications available. It includes a versioning and distributed caching system that makes catalogs available to any application anywhere in the world.
• Control Interface: With a set of user interfaces and APIs for controlling applications and services running in the cloud.
• Infrastructure Delivery Network: It aggregates the different components of the cloud and their separate instances in a cohesive, distributed cloud. It provides authentication, access controls, registration of resource pools, control interfaces and catalogs; it deploys infrastructure from the catalogs to the resource pools as necessary to provide the services specified through the control interface; provides data source for the integrated web services; facilitates the interactions between components of the cloud; manages complex transactions during deployment and migration.

Cloudware is suitable for everybody, data centre operators who can add resources, appliance vendors, system integrators, managed service providers, and of course developers.