CA Technologies has announced that Simula Research Laboratory will standardise on the CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud platform to accelerate and streamline the deployment of cloud services.

The Norwegian state-owned research organisation will use the platform to enable research staff to quickly and easily deploy scalable Web applications with minimal intervention from IT staff. This approach to CA Technologies Business Service Innovation will help Simula drive faster, more efficient basic and long-term research in the fields of networks and distributed systems, scientific computing, and software engineering.

“The CA AppLogic cloud platform will allow Simula to provision and deploy research-based applications in hours instead of days,” says Gunnar Carelius, IT manager, Simula. “Previously, the IT team devoted a large amount of time and resources to configuring servers and infrastructure at the request of researchers, in support of their individual research applications. Using the CA AppLogic platform, the researchers will have self-service access to cloud computing resources, core computing power, storage, operating systems, and applications. This will help ensure that underlying technology does not delay Simula’s research programs.”