New Product Eases Transition to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing just got a little easier, and for those still considering moving from virtual servers, perhaps more appealing.
A recent article in a top industry publication showcases how enterprises can re-write and then move their legacy applications from servers onto the Amazon Cloud. The product is Queplix’s QueCloud, and it’s an upgrade from a tool that helped companies move old applications into virtualized servers.
I was fascinated reading how it works. First, “a crawler searches through the database to extract information such as business entities, metadata, user IDs and permissions, and builds new user interface screens.” Next, a designer module “allows administrators to customize the look and feel of the system,” for instance, make improvements over the original user interface.
Finally, QueCloud deploys the workload to Amazon “as an application that will seem almost identical to users, but code has been replaced by Java code.”
Applications re-written for the cloud support advanced features, for example, search, auditing, data compliance, and automatic alerts for security breaches. And I expect that, as it becomes easier to migrate to cloud computing, for example, with products like Queplix’s, more companies will take their legacy applications off virtualized environments and onto the cloud.
What do you think?