CliQr Moves Your Enterprise Apps into the Cloud so You Don’t Have To
Summary
As they were working at VMware as key engineers on the giant’s vCenter cloud initiatives and watched the rise of the Amazon Web Services’ public cloud empire, Gaurav Manglik and Tenry Fu realized that while the heavyweights had built successful products on the infrastructure side of things, there was still a missing piece. One that has gotten the most hype recently is Docker, whose solution packages applications in Linux “containers,” which can then be deployed on a variety of infrastructure types. They describe interdependencies between all the moving parts and infrastructure requirements, such as the kind of storage, compute and networking resources and firewall rules. CliQr has a number of preset profiles for some of the most common applications – Hadoop, High Performance Computing, Java web apps or Ruby on Rails workloads – and these can be deployed in the cloud within an hour. The more complicated enterprise apps, such as Oracle’s Siebel Customer Relationship Management, may take two to three days, which is still a much shorter time than the weeks it can take a company to move them on their own.