Bungee Labs to Offer Federated Hosting for PaaS
 

Bungee Labs, today announced federated hosting to expand adoption of Platform-as-a-Service among enterprises and Software-as-a-Service providers. It states that organizations developing highly interactive applications on the Bungee Connect PaaS can now elect to host those applications on self-managed infrastructure running the new Bungee Application Server, or on the multi-tenant Bungee Grid at datacenters in the United States, Europe, and on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

The company states that organizations will be able to self-designate the hosting location for their Bungee-powered applications from within their online Bungee Connect development and management account.  Additionally, organizations participating in the Bungee Connect Early Adopter Program will have the ability to download the Bungee Application Server containing a complete, single instance of the Bungee Run-time Software for hosting their Bungee-powered applications within their own infrastructure. It adds that these VMware-based software appliances operate as a single, complete management and delivery server, and as a management hub for additional Bungee Application Servers when multi-server scalability is required.

It avers that development, testing and deployment of non-production versions of Bungee-powered applications are free. Further Bungee-powered applications deployed on the Bungee Connect multi-tenant grid in the United States, European Union and at Amazon EC2 are billed at a rate of US$0.06 per user-session-hour rounded down to the nearest second per user-session. It declares that during the Bungee Connect public beta, there are no fees for these options.

"The rapid transition to PaaS solutions requires a spectrum of seamlessly compatible run-time environments to enable businesses to scale and control their choices," said Martin Plaehn, CEO, Bungee Labs, "By providing Bungee Connect through a combination of Bungee Grid, EC2 and self-hosted VMware-based software appliances, we can provide our partners and customers required flexibility, security and reliability to serve their customers."