rPath

Overview

rPath has taken their expertise and technology in creating virtual appliances for the distribution and consumption of applications and tailored it so enterprise customers can easily and cost-effectively build and move applications into a public or private cloud environment. rPath's technology helps automate the creation, deployment, and maintenance of complete application packages within a company's data center or via a public cloud environment, like Amazon EC2.

rPath's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technology helps customers to reduce the cost and complexity of building and deploying applications to the cloud. rBuilder benefits customers by lowering costs for application deployment, bringing greater efficiency to the development and test lifecycle, trial/demo activity, and production cycle, and making it easier to deploy applications into a cloud environment, like Amazon EC2.

The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with rPath to create a private cloud to run some of its applications.

Value Proposition

rPath helps customer to:

• reduce application deployment cycles from months to minutes
• reduce maintenance costs by reducing software updates by up to 90%
• increase the productivity of personnel by 3-6X
• ensure compliance and control of software systems

Products & Services

• rBuilder is an end-to-end solution that automates the creation, deployment, and maintenance of complete and self-contained systems that can run as application images in a cloud environment. The benefits of rBuilder include:
  • it lower costs for application deployment
  • it brings greater efficiency to the dev/test, trial/demo, and production cycle
  • it makes it easier to deploy the application into a cloud environment, like Amazon EC2

• rPath Lifecycle Management Platform reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining applications by providing one platform for backups, provisioning of licenses, configuration changes, as well as, the administration of updates and patches to images deployed in cloud environments. These services are automatically included in every application package that comes out of rBuilder.

• rPath Professional Services can help businesses plot out their cloud computing strategy, provide hands-on assistance with implementation, application image construction, and annual maintenance.