Why snap for The Cloud?
snap for The Cloud is a set of connectors that provides developers and vendors of core 5250 and 3270 applications with the technology to:
- Enable end user collaboration and sharing of documents
- Reduce IT costs
- Provide a platform for leveraging Web 2.0 technologies such as Mashups
- Utilize Web Services from many different vendors
- Store data in many remote locations and access it from anywhere
- Share data between users and 3rd parties
- Deploy applications and data using a variety of new mechanisms and sales models
- Implement Software as a Service (SaaS)
snap for The Cloud will initially 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, in addition to deploying and accessing many components of their applications & data via the Internet. Future releases will leverage other industry leaders and technologies such as:
· Microsoft Windows Azure
· Amazon Web Services (AWS), including:
o Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
o Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
o Amazon CloudFront Adobe
· Acrobat.com
· Yahoo Cloud Computing
One of the most exciting features of The Cloud that looksoftware has already assisted partners to implement is SaaS based deployment. The rapid growth of subscription based SaaS and Cloud based solutions offers a number of advantages over traditional software purchase models including:
- Reduced upfront cost and risk
- Pay for what you need, when you need it
- Costs savings due to shared infrastructure
- Faster time to value
looksoftware has already become a leading provider of tools and technologies that enable effective implementation of SaaS.
snap for the Cloud is scheduled for initial availability in June 2009.