This week, 3Tera, developer of the AppLogic platform for grid-based utility computing, announced its 2.0 release of the platform. The latest release adds comprehensive application monitoring and support for multiple CPUs per appliance. SaaS and Web 2.0 providers will be happy to know that the new product offers greater scalability, improved resource utilization, and improved visibility and control over applicati This week, 3Tera, developer of the AppLogic platform for grid-based utility computing, announced its 2.0 release of the platform. The latest release adds comprehensive application monitoring and support for multiple CPUs per appliance. SaaS and Web 2.0 providers will be happy to know that the new product offers greater scalability, improved resource utilization, and improved visibility and control over application performance.Vlad Miloushev, President and CEO, 3Tera, said, “While a lot of people are beginning to talk about cloud computing, we already have users in production. AppLogic 2.0 extends the limits of utility computing by providing unparalleled transparency and control of application operation. SaaS and Web 2.0 providers can leverage these capabilities to constantly monitor application performance, network response time, resource usage and many other critical variables from anywhere in the world-using only a browser.” Some of the new features found in AppLogic 2.0 include: Application Monitoring which provides unprecedented visibility into the operation and performance of customer applications. Every element of the application can be monitored simply by adding counters to a custom dashboard using the new monitoring GUI. Hundreds of variables are available as visual graphs that display the values of selected counters within the appliances. Multi-CPU support allows running SMP virtual appliances for processor-intensive software components like databases or JVMs. Each appliance can now have as little as 1% of a CPU and as much as 4 CPUs – a 400X range of resource utilization, allowing users to finely tune their application performance. Pre-packaged clustered LAMP stack infrastructure helps new users get a quick start. By simply adding the application code they can have a full-featured, scalable online application, complete with monitoring that can be scaled in production from a single CPU to more than 32 without modification. GUI enhancements include a web shell for accessing both virtual appliance and grid controller command line interfaces as well as balloon connections for easier infrastructure editingA complete list of all the new features is available on the company’s Web site, here. Software Development