Standing Cloud, a leading provider of cloud marketplace and management solutions, and Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, today announced a new agreement making one-click test-drives, deployment and hosting of Liferay Portal instantly available on more than 15 public clouds through Standing Cloud. Standing Cloud was very recently in news when SetSeed CMS launched a new hosted cloud solution built on their platform and Blue River partnered with them to develop MuraCloud for businesses and other organizations looking for high-quality, high-performance Mura CMS hosting in the cloud.
With Liferay powered by Standing Cloud, users can easily evaluate Liferay Portal with a 30-day, no-cost, fully functional hosted demo in the cloud. Then, it’s just a few clicks to upgrade seamlessly at the end of the trial, with a single bundled monthly price for licensing and hosting. Users can choose the hosting provider, data center and geography of their choice from among wide range of leading public cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, HP Cloud, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure and more.
“The ability to host Liferay Portal through Standing Cloud further accelerates our platform’s readiness for use in cloud-hosted environments,” said Brian Kim, Chief Operating Officer, Liferay. “Enabling Liferay customers to choose from more than 15 leading hosting providers from a single interface is a key benefit and unique advantage of Standing Cloud, and we’re pleased to be working with them.”
Liferay deployments hosted through Standing Cloud are completely portable from cloud-to-cloud, so users are never locked in to a single platform or cloud provider. They can quickly add capacity or move to another cloud, and are protected against downtime and service outages. Because Standing Cloud uses scripted deployments rather than binary images or pre-configured packages, it offers increased development flexibility, stability and portability, even in customized deployments.
In addition, Standing Cloud’s automated application lifecycle management features give Liferay customers easy point-and-click access to a range of automated management services, including 24/7 server monitoring and backups, version upgrades, resource scaling and more.
“Providing single-click managed hosting, provisioning, deployment and management of Liferay Portal on a wide range of cloud providers at a simple monthly bundled price with no cloud lock-in is a great value-add for Liferay and their customers,” said Michael Ficco, Vice President of Business Development, Standing Cloud. “By reducing the hassles of downloading software and configuring servers, and making it easy to spin up trial ‘test drives’ and upgrade seamlessly after trial, we’re excited to help Liferay grow its customer base in the cloud.”
A flexible, scalable platform for content management, collaboration and social networking web solutions, Liferay Portal enables enterprises, small and mid-sized businesses and non-technical users to easily and effectively publish, organize and access data and content, and quickly create applications to facilitate business processes online. There are an estimated 500,000 deployments of Liferay Portal worldwide.
Founded in 2009, Standing Cloud is based in Boulder, Colorado. Standing Cloud is a leading provider of cloud application marketplace and management services. It delivers a seamless application layer for cloud service providers, ISVs and technology solutions providers, making application deployment and management fast, simple and hassle-free for their customers. Their standard application catalog includes 100 open-source and commercial applications; our platform supports multiple programming languages and a wide range of cloud service providers and orchestration software systems. Learn more online at www.standingcloud.com.
