OutSystems grabs PaaS data centres contract with US army

Peter Dinham
Friday, 03 February 2012 00:07

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, OutSystems, has snared a major contract with the United States Department of Defense to assist with consolidation in 962 of the army's data centres across the US by 2015.

The deal provides the Architecture Services Division of the Software Engineering Center, part of the US Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), with a license for OutSystems' Agile Platform, supporting services to deliver the first migration project and training for initial rollout to Army personnel.

A primary component of the strategy to put in place a plan to consolidate the data centers by 2015 is the creation of a private cloud infrastructure.  'Motivated by this initiative, CECOM's Software Engineering Center (SEC) needed a high-performance application development and delivery environment that could function with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities,' OutSystems CEO, Paulo Rosado said.

According to Rosado, OutSystems' Agile Platform provides SEC with a rapid application development (RAD) PaaS solution that 'works out-of-the-box and is easily leveraged in the Army's new private cloud environment. Beyond being able to quickly develop new applications in the cloud, the Agile Platform provides the Army's IT personnel with the ability to quickly, safely and efficiently migrate legacy systems to the new cloud architecture.'

Rosado says that 'rapidly migrating legacy applications to a modern, cloud-based architecture is a cornerstone of the Agile Platform's capabilities,' and 'even though the scale and complexity of the Army's private cloud project is quite large, the success of the Agile Platform when faced with such a challenge shows that model-driven development can effectively scale and deliver applications to allow organizations, like the Army, to fully realise the power of the cloud.'

Farry Philippe-Auguste, Chief Architect at the Architecture Services Division of CECOM's SEC, said that OutSystems' Agile Platform was the only solution that could provide us with the speed to delivery and platform as a service capabilities needed to power our private cloud infrastructure.'