 The Elastic Server On-Demand (ESOD) is a SaaS platform that allows virtualized application stacks to be dynamically defined and built on-demand from component libraries incorporating ISV components, open source software components, and customers' proprietary code. The resulting images are built, encapsulated, given a unique identity, and injected with management and integration services; we call these Elastic Servers. Elastic Servers : | | | Target all major virtualization formats (Citrix-XenSource, IBM, Oracle, Parallels, Sun, and VMware); | | | | They are connected to an online patch management system; | | | | Their configuration changes are logged in an internal manifest linked to CFT for compliance purposes; | | | | They are ready for the new world of virtual infrastructure! | | |  |  | |  | | All the flexibility of Community Edition evaluation but with added feature sets to add your code to your Elastic Server. |
|  | | Ensure adherence to operational and architectural standards while managing the proliferation of commercial and open source software included in business solutions. |
|  | |  ESOD enables new flexibility for customers in managing IT. Major trends like SOA, virutualization, and cloud computing are changing the technology landscape , with major ramifications on cost and business agility. The ESOD provides automation solutions to enable this transition in a de-risked and stable way. Gain business advantage by reducing application infrastructure complexity while increasing agility and customer control.  Using the ESOD automated production line, we build one of several base images (determined by the selected OS type) and then push the user's selected bundles in with our enterprise-tested tools. The final image is formatted into the chosen virtualization configuration and made available for download or deployed to the specified compute cloud.  In addition to minor releases in the short term targeting user experience, CFT will soon be announcing the release of new editions that target different user segments with additional exciting feature sets. For more information take a look at the Elastic Server On-Demand Roadmap. | |