CliQr Technologies, a cloud management start-up modestly seeded by Google Ventures and Foundation Capital and now part of Google’s new IaaS Compute Engine initiative, says it can put complicated legacy business apps in the cloud fast and painlessly.
It was started by an ex-VMware guy Gaurav Manglik, its CEO.
It’s got widgetry called Cloud Center that’s supposed to let mission-critical x86 Windows- and Linux-based apps get to the cloud and hop from one cloud to another without modification, thumbing their nose at service provider lock-in and the chance of downtime and maybe figuring out where it runs best.