Applied Cloud Computing

ACC provides a foundational software layer and application run-time environment that abstracts away the complexities of building and delivering modern cloud applications. ACC enables organizations to capitalize on them by leveraging their existing skillsets and investments, while also providing them with the catalyst to achieve greater returns on new ones. At its core, ACC stitches together any number of Windows and Linux resources into a single fabric, turning those resources into a self-service, policy driven application platform (PaaS). With ACC, modern software development and delivery becomes frictionless and IT delivers more value to the business by operating like a world-class service provider. As a hosting layer, ACC manages network resources while providing an environment that allows your application to function as a service offering even if it wasn't written as one. Furthermore, very much like your operating system might provide you a control panel, ACC provides a variety of tools via the web to interact with your deployed application. Conceptually, ACC parallels the operating system or the modern day application server; it defines a concrete layer that "sits below" your application and acts as a host for your application. ACC focuses on providing value in a few ways: Making developers more productive by removing the need to deal with application management tasks Making developers more productive by giving them a new but backwards compatible runtime, APIs and frameworks to build composite cloud applications Helping organizations increase value by providing a platform for modernizing most of their application portfolio to cloud with little or no effort Helping organizations achieve higher efficiency by improving utilization of infrastructure, improving utilization of server licenses, and automating complex application and IT management tasks Allowing IT to offer self-service application management and deployment to different development teams in the organization Platform as a service tenants ACC automatically detects service dependencies within your application. Using the information, ACC will dynamically bind client requests to appropriate SOAP and REST services, managing everything from automatic discovery to call orchestration. Multi-tier SOA style applications can be difficult to manage at scale. Services typically need to express their capabilities in a way that dependent clients can discover, ensuring that at runtime, clients can properly locate a service instance to handle its needs. Furthermore, as an application evolves across versions, ensuring consistent version matching of client requests can become difficult. ACC automatically detects service boundaries and dependencies that are part of your application. SOAP and REST services are automatically versioned and registered within the ACC registry. ACC's service broker, ensures that runtime client requests are resolved dynamically, and calls are orchestrated to target the appropriate service. Tightly integrated with ACC's load distribution and HA subsystem, if service instances matching the client requests are not available, ACC will automatically deploy instances to ensure availability.