EnterpriseDB EVP Karen Padir

“The Postgres Plus Cloud Database on Amazon will be a hosted offering,” said Padir, who noted that while the managed service provider sector accounts for only a small fraction of EnterpriseDB’s customer base, this hosting offering could peak more interest from MSPs and channel partners.

Padir said the new cloud database solution gives all of the company’s IT customers high-availability, automatic failover replication, out-scaling and auto-tuning capabilities. It also offers a database cloning feature, point-and-click set up and management with web-based interface, and is a fully ACID compliant relational database service.

With the release, EnterpriseDB is trying to simplify the setup and configuration of PostgreSQL in the cloud, and it’s not stopping with support for Amazon EC2. According to Padir, EnterpriseDB is currently working on support for Eucalyptus in a private beta environment. Moreover, EnterpriseDB is working with several partners to add support for multiple cloud platforms so that all of its customers can take advantage of the new solution, regardless of which cloud platform they’re leveraging. One of the companies EnterpriseDB is collaborating with is Hewlett-Packard (HP). EnterpriseDB intends to add support for HP Cloud Services, built on OpenStack.

“There’s a major adoption movement going on right now around OpenStack,” said Padir when explaining which cloud platforms EnterpriseDB plans to support. “OpenStack is not only getting the endorsements from some big companies, but those companies, like HP, are showing everyone what they can create on the OpenStack platform.”

In a prepared statement, EnterpriseDB President and CEO Ed Boyajian said the company is also working with CloudBees, a cloud platform as a service provider for Java web applications, and Engine Yard, a cloud platform provider for Ruby on Rails and PHP, so that its IT customers can have “numerous ways to take advantage of PostgreSQL’s elasticity on multiple cloud platforms.”