The cloud market is crowded, why sense?

The Cloud computing  market space has got very noisy very quickly, with dozens of new, old and recast cloud solutions being proposed every month.  What differentiates Sensible Cloud’s sense cloud application platform?

  • sense was born from the practical experience of dozens of complex enterprise level distributed application projects using JEE, SOA and agile development techniques.  It comes from tried and tested development projects – not a marketing booklet.
  • sense was designed and written from the start for cloud based operations – it carries no legacy implementations.
  • sense offers the key principles of cloud computing across all major types of computing platform.  Whether you use it on JEE, .Net, Virtualization, SaaS or cloud solutions, or most likely some combination of these, sense offers the same benefits within each platform, silo and across the boundaries between them. You are not locked into just one type of technology platform to satisfy your business computing needs – you can extend from where you are today and still maintain, and even improve, the control, service levels and reliability you provide.
  • sense uses business rules, defined by business staff as the evaluation criteria for what constitutes a high value service.  These business criteria and service level agreements (SLAs) guide the actions of sense to match the best resources available at the time to the incoming business requests.  While technical criteria, such as latency, CPU utilization, etc. are important measurements, perhaps profit, revenue and penalty driven contracts are more valuable to the business’ success.
  • Sensible Cloud enables many business models, and does not require you to adapt to a limited offering.  If pay-as-you-go is your preferred model, then with minimal setup you can begin to accrue the benefits of cloud computing from day 1, and only pay for what you actually use.  If you require complete control, we can also offer more traditional subscription and software licensing models for your onsite operations.  In all cases you will be able to determine your initial and ongoing cost outlay for the use of sense.
  • sense operates on a principle of “everything as a service”.  Rather than point at one class of computing resource and turn that into a cloud, sense looks at all computing assets as a service. This lets you use the same cloud based principles if you are working with Java programs, SOA web Services, PHP web development, SaaS applications, computer hardware or virtualized resources (like Xen or Vmware). In effect all these, and even sense itself, are viewed as SLA managed services.  In this way sense provides and end-to-end cloud view of your business applications and you can choose how much you move into the cloud and still interact consistently with your existing infrastructure and applications.