ANEKA: A cloud Development Platform

The potential benefits of cloud computing are huge. However, transforming current business operations into cloud platform may be new and daunting task. Even for a business starting everything afresh cloud computing may be a uncharted waters. Such enterprises have to overcome great gap in terms of "knowledge gap" and "strategic gaps". For such companies Aneka is a great help. ANEKA is a flexible, extensible market oriented cloud application development and deployment solution. It allows servers and desktop PCs to be linked together to form a very powerful computing infrastructure. Some of the key features supported by ANEKA are (1) a configurable and flexible execution platform, ( 2) SDK supporting multiple programming models, (3) support for deployment of applications on private or public clouds.