While cloud computing offers tremendous promise, it takes significant effort to deploy, run, and manage custom applications in the clouds (public or private). To achieve the full benefits of cloud computing, what's needed is on-demand middleware, automatic deployment, and run-time management of custom applications in the clouds. Jamal Mazhar and Sudhir Kulkarni will explain that contrary to the bottom-up approach of traditional tools, taking a top-down application-centric approach to managing infrastructure and middleware makes it easy to fully automate the application lifecycle management from procuring infrastructure to configuring middleware, deploying applications, and proactively managing service levels for individual applications.

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