Terracotta Works Together with VMware to Squeeze Complexity and Costs from Java Applications Through Cloud Computing

Business Wire, June 02, 2009

Combined Solution Demonstrated at JavaOne Conference This Week - Maximizes Flexibility and Provides a Cost-Efficient High Availability Solution to the Java Market

SAN FRANCISCO -- Terracotta, a recognized leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, today announced a new step in its relationship with VMware to deliver a cloud computing solution for the Java market that makes applications much easier to develop, test, expand and manage for dramatically lower cost. In the combined solution, VMware vSphere™ 4 will help ensure that hardware resources are fully and efficiently utilized, while Terracotta will provide high performance and availability of important data without requiring expensive database upgrades or clustered application servers.

Terracotta is a breakthrough Java data management solution that reduces the operational and capital costs required to build and support reliable, scalable web applications. For Java applications, Terracotta provides an infrastructure layer that makes scalability easier by reducing database and custom development costs often associated with expanding application capacity. The next few years will see a rapid increase of cloud-enabling technologies and a corresponding growth in customers who take advantage of them, whether through an internal data center or an external cloud. When Terracotta is deployed on VMware vSphere 4, customers can optimize cost, availability and performance levels while choosing the service delivery model that works best for them. Terracotta supports VMware vSphere 4 as the most mature, feature-rich virtualization technology to empower customers to leverage the benefits of cloud computing.

The key benefits of the solution from VMware and Terracotta for Java applications include a matchless platform for on-demand provisioning of applications, guaranteed resource capacity for application SLAs, server containment for parallel development cycles on shared hardware and faster change management with no downtime, using libraries of standard configurations. The two companies have already collaboratively tested their joint solution and established best practice deployment and operations guidelines for using their products together. An upcoming series of webcasts, whitepapers and conference seminars will provide customers with a rich set of practical guidelines they can use to tame complexity and costs associated with managing Java applications. Demonstrations of the VMware/Terracotta solution will be provided throughout the week at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco at booth 734.

“Efficiency, control and choice are key priorities for customers when selecting business IT solutions and applications,” says Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. “The combination of Terracotta software with VMware vSphere 4 will help provide a foundation for more reliable and scalable Java applications that can be leveraged by customers on their journey to cloud computing, enabling a faster path to 100 percent virtualization and delivery of IT as a service.”

“Terracotta and VMware have been working together for some time to provide a solution that reduces the complexity and operational costs that hamper many Java applications,” says Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey. “We’re very pleased to be working with VMware, the world leader in virtualization, in bringing this solution to our customers. It is a solution they have been demanding for some time, and one they’re very enthusiastic to see.”

About Terracotta, Inc.

Terracotta is infrastructure software that provides affordable and scalable high availability for Java applications. Companies use Terracotta to offload work from databases and application servers and to reduce their development efforts. Founded in 2003, Terracotta, Inc. is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco. More information is available at www.terracottatech.com. Terracotta’s open source community is available at www.terracotta.org.