Looksoftware is at the forefront of application modernisation and integration solutions for core 5250 and 3270 mainframe applications.
Locally distributed by TEMBO Technology Lab (PTY) Ltd, the software house provides the tools and expertise to enable developers to easily integrate new technologies with their IBM back-end investments.
The latest edition to looksoftware's snap series is 'snap for The Cloud'.
"Cloud computing brings together the connectivity of the Internet, unprecedented access to applications, data from around the globe and unlimited storage capacity for anyone to tap into," says Marinus van Sandwyk, Founder and CTO of TEMBO Technology Lab.
"Leading vendors of Internet-based technologies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and Adobe are investing significant resources and focus into making The Cloud an effective and powerful environment for application developers and vendors to distribute and execute their applications."
Snap for The Cloud is a set of connectors that provide developers and vendors core 5250 and 3270 applications with the technology to:
* Enable end-user collaboration and sharing of documents
* Reduce your IT costs
* Provide a leverage platform for Web 2.0 technologies such as Mashups
* Utilise Web services from many different vendors
* Store data in many remote locations and access it from anywhere
* Share data between users and third parties
* Deploy applications and data using a variety of new mechanisms and sales models
* Implement software-as-a-service (SaaS)
The many technologies and skill-sets required to take advantage of The Cloud have been simplified and automated. This allows developers with minimal training and knowledge of Web technologies to keep up with company demands and focus on business needs.
Snap for the Cloud will support Google's Cloud offerings such as Google Apps and GDrive. This will enable System i users to collaborate using Web-based document management solutions, while deploying and accessing many components of their applications and data via the Internet.
Future releases will leverage other industry leaders and technologies such as:
* Microsoft Windows Azure
* Amazon Web Services (AWS), including:
* Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
* Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
* Amazon CloudFront
* Adobe Acrobat.com
* Yahoo Cloud Computing
"SaaS-based deployment is one of the most exciting features of The Cloud that looksoftware has already implemented with some of its partners," says Van Sandwyk. "The rapid growth of subscription SaaS and cloud-based solutions offer a number of advantages over traditional software purchase models. These benefits include reduced upfront cost because of the shared infrastructure, less risk, a pay as you need methodology and faster time to value. Looksoftware has already become a leading provider of tools and technologies that enable effective implementation of SaaS."
Looksoftware's Product Manager, Eamon Musallam, says: "As our partners have already discovered, The Cloud and SaaS offer a tremendous growth opportunity by enabling easy, global access to their rock solid solutions. It's heartening to see our partner's continuous growth in these tough economic times."
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