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Kaavo is a cloud computing management company.〔(85 Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud )〕 Kaavo was founded in November 2007 in the U.S. Kaavo pioneered top-down application-centric management of cloud infrastructure across public, private, and hybrid clouds.〔(Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand )〕〔(Kaavo Launches World's First Application-Centric Management Solution for Cloud Computing Infrastructure )〕〔(Kaavo Launches IMOD )〕〔(Kaavo Intros Application-Centric Management Solution for Cloud Computing Infrastructure )〕〔(Kaavo Launches Soln For Cloud Computing Infrastructure Mgmt )〕〔(Cloud Brokers: The Next Big Opportunity? )〕〔(Rackspace Blog: Kaavo’s IMOD Now Supports The Rackspace Cloud )〕〔(Gartner: Cool Vendors in Cloud Management )〕〔(IndUS Business Journal: Jamal Mazhar: Reach for the Sky )〕〔(TMC's executive editor interview of Kaavo CEO at the Cloud Expo Silicon Valley 2010 )〕 ==Technology== Traditional infrastructure and its associated management intrinsically ties applications to servers and servers to IP addresses and IP addresses to switches and routers. This is a tightly coupled model and according to experts leaves very little room to address the dynamic nature of a virtual infrastructure such as those most often seen in cloud computing models.〔(Managing Virtual Infrastructure Requires an Application Centric Approach )〕 Subject matter experts supporting Kaavo's approach claims that in the cloud when applications are decoupled from the servers on which they are deployed and the network infrastructure that supports and delivers them, they cannot be effectively managed unless they are recognized as individual components themselves. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) delivers on-demand infrastructure resources, however, users still need to deploy and configure their applications and workloads on the IaaS layer.〔(How Kaavo fits in the cloud space, short video )〕 Kaavo provides a framework to automate the deployment and run-time management (production support) of applications and workloads on multiple clouds (Infrastructure-as-a-Service Layer). Kaavo claims that the bottom-up approach of traditional data center management tools makes it harder to manage the infrastructure, especially when dealing with the scale and distributed nature of the cloud. Kaavo takes a top-down application-centric approach for deploying and managing applications in the cloud.〔(Pure Play Application Services Management in Cloud Computing? )〕〔(Making the cloud work for you )〕〔(SiliconIndia: Where lies the Silver lining? )〕〔(onCloudComputing: NIIT Technologies partners with Kaavo to provide secure cloud infrastructure management services )〕〔(TechTarget: Top cloud computing startups )〕 In an application-centric cloud management approach, systems for specific applications are managed rather than managing servers and routers. All required resources for a given application are managed as a unified system; all the information for deploying and managing runtime services levels for the resources required by a given application are captured top-down in a single system definition. In contrast, in an infrastructure-centric or bottom-up approach, resources (servers, storage, and network resources) are managed individually.〔(Cloud control systems tame the ether )〕 One of the key innovations by Kaavo is the ability to capture the deployment and run-time management behavior of any complex application or workload in a single XML document(Kaavo System Definition). Kaavo has published the XSD for the System Definition file.〔(Kaavo System Definition File XSD )〕〔(Kaavo N-tier System Definition Guide )〕 Kaavo's IMOD product uses patented technology 〔(US Patent # 8,271,974 - Cloud Computing Lifecycle Management for N-tier Applications )〕 and is based on Kaavo's top-down application-centric management philosophy.〔(Information Week: Kaavo Cross Vendor Cloud Control )〕〔(CIO Magazine: Startup launches Cloud Application Management Tool )〕〔(Cloud management tools guide for beginners )〕〔(IDG News Network: 15 Cloud Companies to Watch )〕〔(Techno-Pulse: Application Centric Management & Security for Cloud Computing )〕〔(451 Group : Kaavo targets multi-cloud deployments )〕〔(Enable application-centric cloud management )〕〔(Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach by McGraw-Hill )〕〔(The Economics of Elastic Data )〕 〔(7 Hot New Cloud Computing Offerings To Check Out Now )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaavo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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