Cloud Technology Partners Unveils PaaSLane Beta

Cloud Technology Partners has unveiled the public beta of PaaSLane, a cloud platform designed to both smooth the transition for applications as they move from traditional IT infrastructure to the cloud and to optimize those apps within their new cloud-based environments.

The messaging goes beyond what most of these cloud migration platform launches offer, but Cloud Technology Partners is really aiming to provide the same end—get traditional apps on the cloud to take advantage of the scalability, flexibility and cost savings associated with cloud environments.

As the company noted in its announcement, cloud migration can be labor-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. PaaSLane was developed to automate the process while also continually evaluating the application source code for issues related to performance, stability, security and scalability.

“PaaSLane finds issues and estimates the time required to address them in a matter of minutes, giving management an objective measure of cloud readiness across application portfolios, while providing development teams with a roadmap to start fixing them immediately,” said John Treadway, senior vice president of Cloud Technology Partners, in a prepared statement.

The platform was also designed to work with many of the popular cloud offerings, including Amazon (AMZN) Web Services, Google (GOOG) Cloud, Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Azure, Apprenda, OpenShift, Stackato and Cloud Foundry. It also can be used to migrate apps to custom cloud platforms. But at least for the big players, Cloud Technology Partners has hit most of the main ones. Rackspace (RAX) and OpenStack, curiously, are missing (unless they fall under the “custom cloud platforms” category).

PaaSLane uses static code analysis to analyze source code to find common patterns that might affect the way the app performs and then provides recommendations based on best practices. A few of the key features in the public beta include:

For cloud providers or cloud application developers, this presents another option for application migration. There are plenty of migration platforms on the market, and it seems as though the market might be getting a bit saturated in that respect, but you can’t deny the trend toward taking traditional apps into the cloud.