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Nexaweb Cloud Platform
Not only can you modernize your legacy applications, you can also modernize your IT application development platform and practices using the Nexaweb Client/Server to Cloud platform as a service (PaaS).
The Nexaweb Cloud PaaS allows your modernization team to work on a cloud-based platform, securely delivered on the public cloud of your choice (e.g., Amazon AWS, Rackspace, etc.) by Nexaweb partner, Standing Cloud.
Because projects are relatively hardware-intensive and short-lived, legacy application modernization is perfectly suited for cloud computing. The approach offers several benefits:
- Start projects sooner - Nexaweb Cloud PaaS includes all the hardware and software the modernization project team requires, pre-configured, and is provisioned the same day it is requested. This is much quicker than traditional, in-house platform procurement and installation, which often takes 1 to 2 months.
- More economical - Modernization projects usually last 6 to 12 months and they can require hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware for development, testing and staging environments. Nexaweb Cloud PaaS provides access to development and test hardware configurations on-demand, for a monthly fee, for as long as you need it, and for far less money. At the end of the project, the Nexaweb Cloud PaaS overhead goes away; there's no leftover hardware taking up space in your data center.
- New IT skills - Industry experts Gartner and Forrester Research both predict that the future of application development and delivery will be increasingly cloud-based. Nexaweb Cloud PaaS enables your team to acquire cloud-based development skills, which will make your IT organization more efficient.
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Nexaweb devCloud
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Nexaweb testCloud
- Test against specific versions, manage build promotion and simulate the target production environment
- User interface automation station
- Performance test station
- Consolidated dashboard for build promotion, deployment and access to system statistics and logs across the environment
Nexaweb prodCloud
Nexaweb Cloud PaaS provides the option to deploy your modernized application within your data center or on a public cloud using the Nexaweb prodCloud:
- Provides monitoring, maintenance and SLA suitable for production
- N machine cluster for application server, and database
- Backup and archive system components to another provider for redundancy and failover
- Clear control over system security
- Granular audit capability for any system configuration changes
- Consolidated dashboard to monitor system health across the environment and start/stop/increase resources




