Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS), announced today that its Rollbase® rapid
application development platform is now certified “Helion Ready” and
will be available to deploy on HP’s distribution of OpenStack. By
combining the Rollbase platform with HP Helion OpenStack project,
organizations can now benefit from a hybrid cloud that offers IT
security, control and agility while empowering developers with simple
rapid application development and deployment.
With the “Helion Ready” certification, for the first time, the Progress
global ecosystem―consisting of millions of developers, ISVs and end
users around the world―can take advantage of the seamless integration of
scalable infrastructure, computing and storage resources necessary to
power and scale their applications. They can further manage and protect
their application and user data for compliance and deploy applications
to multiple clouds, ensuring high performance and low latency.
“We’re excited by Progress and HP’s vision for cloud-based application
development and deployment,” said Mike Liewer of Akioma, an existing
Progress ISV, whose cloud native SaaS application was developed and is
delivered today on the Progress® platform running in a data center owned
by HP CloudAgile Partner, Cancom.
IT speed, agility and cost-effectiveness are all imperatives for modern
enterprises. HP Helion provides distributed computing capabilities that
can meet those demands in an ever-changing marketplace, leveraging the
power of OpenStack, the world’s largest open-source cloud computing
project. The availability of Progress Rollbase on HP Helion will help
businesses address one of the key challenges they face today: faster
time to market for new applications. At a time when IT backlogs appear
to be growing, the Rollbase rapid application development platform
enables users to take advantage of its sophisticated, graphical “drag
and drop” user interface to create polished, “consumer-quality”
cloud-based applications that can deploy in a few clicks.
“Faced with constant market disruption from newer players, businesses
need to be ever more innovative. But with application development using
traditional tools taking six months or longer, the market has already
moved on by the time the application is ready to go―leaving businesses
behind the curve,” said Karen Tegan Padir, President, Application
Development & Deployment Business Unit, Progress Software. “The
availability of Rollbase on HP Helion fundamentally changes this, giving
businesses the ability to quickly build, deploy and manage applications
that are critical to their operations, keeping pace with the needs of
the business and its customers.”
“The addition of Progress and its ecosystem of millions of developers,
ISVs, and end users is a critical endorsement of HP Helion,” said Bobby
Patrick, Chief Marketing Officer, HP Cloud. “Together, HP and Progress
help CIOs deliver on the benefits of cloud computing, by enabling their
developers to spend more time coding and less time worrying about
infrastructure resources – all while maintaining control and protection
of sensitive company data.”
The Rollbase platform affords organizations an unparalleled flexibility
of deployment options―public, private or on-premise―without requiring
modifications to the applications being deployed. It was tested and
installed extensively on the Helion OpenStack project to guarantee that
customers are able to ensure it leverages the full capabilities of the
architecture, without limitation on application performance or
scalability.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company
that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business
applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device, to
any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com
or 1-781-280-4000.
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