They’re called “platform clouds” or sometimes “platform-as-a-service.” They provide a platform where software developers can build online applications without having to mess around with all the infrastructure needed to run them. Some, like Heroku and Google App Engine, run only on the public internet. But a few companies, such as Apprenda, offer platform clouds you can install in your own data center.
Up until now, you could only use Apprenda’s product if you were building applications with Microsoft’s .NET framework, but now the company is supporting the Java programming language as well.
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