MELBOURNE, Australia, June 26 — DURGA, a one stop Platform as a Service (PaaS) platform that allows business to configure, deploy, manage and monitor applications in the cloud within a matter of minutes, was launched in Melbourne last Friday (22nd June 2012). The launch took place at the NBNCo Discovery Centre (Docklands) solidifying the partnership between Australian based PaaS provider SENATH and high performance IaaS provider OrionVM.

This partnership allows businesses (both small and large) to very quickly deploy a range of free and paid applications, as well as allowing application developers to package and sell their applications on the application marketplace. By combining the Worlds Fastest Public Cloud platform as built by OrionVM with an application provisioning platform developed by SENATH, business are able to gain rapid access to a range of business application, while keeping data on-shore.

The DURGA platform is a next generation Platform as a Service (PaaS) product that simplifies application development, testing, deployment, migration, monitoring and management in private, hybrid as well as public cloud environments. DURGA comes with a rich marketplace of applications and an application development framework that allows you to get started in matter of minutes.

In a presentation given by SENATH's Director Kanchana Wickremasinghe, the partnership between OrionVM and SENATH was announced. "We are delighted to have partnered with OrionVM to deliver DURGA to Australian businesses. The use of an Australian cloud provider has allowed us to deliver extremely responsive applications with much lower latency than our competitors. This is key for many of customers and is very important to us."

OrionVM Managing Director Sheng Yeo was also present at the event to unveil this partnership. "We are incredibly excited to be working in close collaboration with SENATH on the DURGA Platform. We believe that with the release of the Durga platform, the leadership position within the largely misunderstood PaaS category of Cloud Computing is absolutely within the grasp of this highly innovative company. We are very proud to have established this great strategic partnership with DURGA and together we will continue to innovate and deliver groundbreaking solutions for business globally."

The NBNCo Discovery Centre was selected to host this event as the NBN will provide broadband connectivity to 100% of the Australian premises. Broadband connectivity is critical to the delivery of cloud platforms such as DURGA and OrionVM.

To discover more about DURGA and this partnership, visit http://orionvm.durgacloud.com.

About SENATH Pty Ltd

SENATH (www.senathltd.com) is a cloud technology company focused on delivering cost effective, reliable, scalable, secure and robust cloud solutions to small and medium sized businesses to large enterprises and government agencies. SENATH offers DURGA PaaS and OneSME SaaS cloud products to its customers and partners globally. SENATH Pty Ltd formed in 2008, is a privately held company with headquarters based in Melbourne, Australia.

About OrionVM

OrionVM (www.orionvm.com.au) is a pure infrastructure-as-a-service company located in Australia. Formed in early 2010, the business developed CloudDC which has been third party benchmarked as the world's fastest cloud computing infrastructure platform (CloudHarmony.com). Separate to CloudDC, OrionVM continues to innovate technology and techniques in both the Australian and global cloud infrastructure markets.

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Source: SENATH; OrionVM