New PowerCenter Cloud Edition On Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Help Lower IT Costs and Gain Competitive Advantage
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced the beta release of Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition, an innovative cloud computing data integration product running on Amazon EC2. Complementing this new product is the latest Informatica On Demand offering, PowerCenter Service, to enable IT and business users to remotely execute and manage data integration jobs on Amazon EC2, simply by using an Internet browser.
With growing adoption of cloud computing, enterprises often collect and manage data in disparate silos across the enterprise, the cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. To gain a competitive advantage from all this data, organizations require a solution for cross-enterprise data integration. PowerCenter Cloud Edition is a comprehensive and affordable product to address these requirements.
To leverage cloud computing as an extension to traditional on-premise computing infrastructure, many enterprises want robust remote administration capabilities to better enable migration of data as well as management of data. Informatica On Demand PowerCenter Service offers a simple, yet powerful facility to address these requirements.
"Informatica was an early believer in cloud computing and pioneered both cross-enterprise data integration with remote connectivity for Software-as-a-Service vendors and Integration-as-a-Service with Informatica On Demand services," said Girish Pancha, executive vice president and general manager, Data Integration at Informatica. "With the introduction today of Informatica's first data integration offering for Amazon Web Services (AWS), our customers can get the best of both worlds -- lowering their total cost of ownership with cloud computing infrastructure, while gaining a competitive advantage from all their data."
Comprehensive Data Integration Offering for Amazon EC2
The PowerCenter Cloud Edition is a broad data integration offering that leverages Amazon EC2. Thousands of organizations successfully rely on PowerCenter for their on-premise enterprise data integration projects. Now, with the flexibility of deploying PowerCenter on-premise or on Amazon EC2, IT departments can optimize for both performance and network costs by running PowerCenter "near" the primary data sources. At the same time, IT departments can optimize for hardware, software and labor costs by leveraging the cloud computing model provided by AWS with the pay-as-you-use PowerCenter Cloud Edition pricing.
In addition, Informatica On Demand is powered by PowerCenter to deliver cross-enterprise data integration services.
