The app store will offer 3tera's enterprise customers an easy way to buy infrastructure components, complete applications, server components, etc.. Everything from networking components like load balancers, firewalls, routers, etc to server components like web servers, database servers, application servers, etc.. The marketplace will offer allow service providers to offer their cloud based services to the 3Tera customers. It will also host management services, monitoring, etc.. The app store will go live in the third quarter of this year.
This is nothing new or ground breaking. Already, we are seeing a strong ecosystem around Amazon web services. We see a market place for selling AMIs for EC2, Apps for S3, Management products and services for EC2, etc.. In the case of Amazon, the marketplace has evolved into an ecosystem around Amazon. What 3Tera is trying to do is to tie the app store to the 3Tera platform much like what Apple has done with its iPhone App Store.
Already, Zeus technology has signed up to be a partner in the app store. They will be offering their enterprise grade load balancer and traffic manager to 3Tera's customers. Other initial partners includes CohesiveFT, GlobalLogic, Layer 7 Technologies, SOASTA, Tap In Systems, etc.. In fact, it is a great start and such an ecosystem for any platform will help propel them towards more adoption. This will also help rope in more enterprises to use Cloud Computing. Since the components from the app store can be installed in public, "private" and hybrid cloud environments, it will be interesting to see how enterprises embrace this ecosystem as they jump into Cloud bandwagon.
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