Application Management Platform

ISVs should be focused on building the best application possible to meet their customer’s needs and beat their competition. To do this they develop deep core expertise in areas of software development, database and UI design along with the necessary subject matter expertise related to the applications they are building. SaaS requires ISVs to be concerned with the actual operation of their applications. Operational expertise requires a very different skillset from software development and most software companies do not have operational delivery as part of their core DNA. Building that core operational expertise is extremely difficult, expensive and time consuming and detracts from the primary focus of the ISV—building great software.

In order to leverage the cloud, SaaS ISVs need ongoing operations management to deliver their applications securely and robustly. Virtual Ark has spent several years building its Application Management Platform (AMP) that manages cloud Infrastructure, enterprise services and application management. This includes working with the various cloud vendors and providing all the necessary services including billing and complete management of the operating system and storage platform. Virtual Ark is an expert delivering all aspects of cloud-based application services including monitoring, backups, auto-scaling, provisioning, service management and multi-cloud management. Finally, Virtual Ark understands that management of the application itself includes a wide variety of technology and services including pro-active and re-active application maintenance, application monitoring, SLAs management, application upgrades and package customization.

Virtual Ark has developed a production ready, secure and seamlessly managed cloud computing capability. Virtual Ark delivers SaaS applications on the cloud at a fraction of the cost and at a significantly improved efficiency when compared to alternative models. Virtual Ark supports full application lifecycle management for mission critical SaaS applications by providing its cloud computing expertise in a cost-effective enterprise-class managed cloud service model.