AppScale Systems, a newly surfaced start-up that has its own AppScale Cloud Platform, an open source runtime system for web applications and mobile application back-ends, just introduced its first commercial product, ScaleSafe, which automates failover and migration of cloud apps and data that use Google App Engine services for their implementation.
AppScale was started by Woody Rollins, the founding CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, and Chandra Krintz, the University of California, Santa Barbara professor who happens to be married to Rich Wolski, another Eucalyptus founder now on its board.
AppScale’s mission is to commoditize public cloud services beginning with those in Google App Engine, the public cloud Platform-as-a-Service that simplifies writing, deploying and scaling applications and mobile app back-ends so developers can focus on their app rather than worry about its underlying systems and services.