Traditional middleware is not suitable for the Cloud: it’s simply too complex and it does not provide a pay-per-use charge model.
In their General Session at Cloud Expo New York, Ash Massoudi, CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology, and Sandy Zylka, co-founder of NextAxiom, discuss a new middleware paradigm for developing and integrating applications: metered, virtualized middleware. The virtualized attribute allows you to easily build and run new applications in the cloud reusing existing on-premise application functionality. The metered attribute has two aspects: it provides a usage-based charge model for the middleware itself and it provides a built-in, metered charge model, much like electricity, for your new applications.