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        The information system in the cloud

        Run in the cloud
        Prompto is designed from the ground to run in the cloud, whether public or private.
        How is this different from a traditional information system?
        Many of the technologies currently used to build applications were designed long before the cloud was even dreamt of.
            As a consequence, organizations have a hard time building applications for the cloud, and deploying them in the cloud.
        Information systems are built from many applications, often dozens, sometimes hundreds of them.
            Making applications work together is a task in itself, proven to be complex even when using simple infrastructure.
            While the cloud may simplify some aspects such as hardware provisioning, it can increase the inherent complexity of running an information system.
        
        Prompto introduces a radically different approach, where the information system itself is in the cloud.
            This includes all core components of the information system: deployment, load balancing, replication, backup,
            monitoring, OS upgrades, DNS, authentication, entitlement and so forth.
        
        While the Prompto technology takes care of infrastructure, security and scalability, the applications running within this
            information system can focus on business value.
        

        Build in the cloud
        Prompto information systems are entirely built in the cloud. All infrastructure management applications are in the cloud.
            All application management applications are in the cloud. All application development applications are in the cloud,
            including the IDE for creating web pages and writing application code.


        Prompto components
        Prompto comprises different components:
        

            hardware administration tools, used to manage deployment of applications on the infrastructure
            application administration tools, used to monitor execution of applications on the infrastructure
            development tools, used to build applications, test them, and manage their lifecycle
            a code store used to store and distribute configuration and application code across the infrastructure
            data store adapters, used to store business data in popular distributed data stores
            a programming language, called Prompto
        
        

        Availability
        Prompto is currently under construction. This web site provides a sneak preview of the Prompto programming language,
            which is at the core of the Prompto platform.