Company's AppLogic 2.4 beta supports datacenter operating systems like Linux, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows.

3Tera Inc., a provider of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, today announced beta availability of AppLogic 2.4 which includes support for virtual appliances running Microsoft Windows Server incorporated in all infrastructure components necessary to run Web applications including storage, networking and load balancing. The company claims that this new functionality is available immediately both as a service in the cloud and as private clouds in enterprise datacenters and, for the first time, a cloud computing platform enables virtual datacenters that exceed the capabilities of traditional datacenters in commercial enterprise environments.

The comapny states that its cloud computing solution comprises of adding Windows to AppLogic's existing support of Linux, Sun's Open Solaris and Solaris 10 follows its cloudware architecture for open cloud computing, announced earlier this year. It also states users of AppLogic can now utilize the datacenter operating systems in their applications, and even mix and match operating systems within applications as needed. This advancement opens cloud computing to the growing number of users seeking IT scalability and flexibility beyond what is possible today in traditional datacenter environments, it adds.

''Windows support is an important requirement for an open cloud computing environment robust enough to take on any Web or enterprise application,'' said Bert Armijo, senior vice president of sales and marketing, 3Tera Inc. ''Solutions like .net, IIS, SQL Server and Exchange have made Windows a critical part of IT infrastructure.''