Bungee jumps into a federated platform model
By Robert Mullins
April 25, 2008 —
Bungee Labs, a platform-as-service provider, is offering two options for hosting applications created on its developer platform, in an effort to serve enterprises who want to keep their applications on their own network as well as those with their heads in cloud computing.
Bungee is offering to host applications on either of two data centers it operates, plus a third grid it offers through Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service. But for those not comfortable hosting sensitive applications in the cloud, clients can take the application developed on Bungee’s platform as a virtual image and run it on their own network, the company announced Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
“If your requirements state that you need to host the app yourself, you now have a virtual appliance called the Bungee Application server,” said Brad Hintze, product marketing director for Bungee.
The Bungee Application Server, based on the widely used VMware application server, can be run in the client’s own network as a virtual image, Hintze said, at a rate of US$500 per image per month. If the client prefers the cloud computing method, Bungee will host the application on one of its own data centers—it owns one each in the U.S. and Europe—or on Amazon’s EC2 cloud, access to which Bungee resells.
The hosted options are billed at a rate of $0.06 per user-session hour, meaning that the application’s owner of the is only billed when an end user actually accesses the application, said Dave Mitchell, CTO and founder of the year-old Bungee Labs. He contrasted the Bungee model with that of cloud providers that charge a flat monthly rate even if no one uses the application.
Hintze noted that Bungee charges nothing for use of its Bungee Connect developer platform, an integrated development platform for creating, testing and deploying an application, designed to simplify the process as much as possible.
“One of the biggest challenges facing Web developers is that there is a tremendous amount of work that they must do to build and deliver a Web application, but it lends no value to the applications,” Hintze explained, adding, “Our motto is ‘Build the app, not the crap.’ ”
For instance, he continued, applications are built on the AJAX framework but developers need not write actual AJAX code. Also, features such as cross-browser compatibility, database integration, security and others are managed on the Bungee Connect platform.
Bungee joins Amazon, Google App Engine, Salesforce.com and others in the growing field of cloud computing, in which applications can be created and hosted over the Internet.
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