Cycle Offers Multiple Clouds in Single Dashboard, Awarded Patent

November 9, 2015

By Bio-IT World Staff

November 10, 2015 | Cycle Computing today announced a new version of its flagship product: CycleCloud. Version 5 is available immediately, and contains updates including a single dashboard for quickly and securely accessing and managing workloads on each of the world’s leading cloud service providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine.

The company also announced that it was recently awarded a “method and system patent for automatically detecting and resolving infrastructure faults in cloud infrastructure.” The technology ensures that required infrastructure and services are fully functional before and during the execution of clustered applications in the cloud. The details of patent number 9,146,840 are available at the US Patent Office website.

Cycle began working in a strictly Amazon cloud environment. In September the company announced its first public run on the Google cloud platform. The new features of CycleCloud v5 will let users place their workloads on the best cloud option available, and be in control of specific runtime parameters such as desired instance types, pricing thresholds, allotted time, and many others.

“The release of CycleCloud v5 provides customers with unprecedented choice and flexibility to run Big Data and Big Compute workloads on cloud,” said Jason Stowe, Cycle’s CEO, in a press release.

Other key features of v5 include:

  • improved ability to deploy custom images;
  • AWS-specific Spot Bidding Optimizations to minimize compute cost by automatically and efficiently using features such as equivalent instance types, multiple application zones, and real-time cost monitoring;
  • support for Fast Data Transfer developed by CERN; and
  • event-based workflow support, which enables independent execution of multi-step workflows in the cloud, such as those composed of data transfers and multiple applications or analyses.

In a separate statement, Stowe announced Cycle’s new patent and commented: “Receiving this method and system patent is not only great recognition for those who contributed at Cycle, but also provides valuable protections for Cycle and our customers.”