A Short Story About CloudTran

CloudTran is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley. It was originally formed as a spin-off from the Java business unit of New Technologies/enterprise, NT/e.

CloudTran makes it possible to run web-scale, business-critical applications in public, private, and hybrid clouds by a scalable data layer to the overall architecture. Enterprise IT organizations and SaaS software vendors will find CloudTran to be a key requirement in a broad range of applications including ecommerce, supply chain management, ERP, online gaming, web publishing, mobile payment processing, and more.

The company grew from the recognition that developing large-scale applications for web environments is more complex than many organizations realize. Capability and infrastructure that were once taken for granted on mainframes are no longer available "out of the box." The new world of grid computing and massive, distributed databases presents new challenges to developers who often lack the tools and time to reinvent the missing pieces.