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Sun Microsystems has announced that it has acquired Belgium-based Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds.

 

The Q-layer organization is expected to become part of Sun's Cloud Computing business unit. This unit of Sun develops and integrates cloud computing technologies, architectures and services.

 

In addition to simplifying cloud management, the Q-layer technology allows users to provision and deploy applications.

 

“Sun's open, network-centric approach coupled with optimized systems, software and services provides the critical building blocks for private and public cloud offerings,” said David Douglas, senior vice president of Cloud Computing and chief sustainability officer at Sun Microsystems (News - Alert).

 

Douglas expects Q-layer's technology and expertise to enhance Sun’s offerings, simplifying cloud management and speeding application deployment.

 

Q-layer software supports instant provisioning of services such as servers, storage, bandwidth and applications. The support allows users to scale their own environments to meet their specific requirements, according to the company.

 

Along with bringing compute and data resources onto the Web, cloud computing offers massive scalability and faster and easier software development, according to Sun officials.

 

Officials said that their company is an “ideal” advisor and partner for companies that want to build cloud computing facilities within their organizations. In addition, the company also advises companies and service providers who want to build publicly available cloud computing services.

 

Established in 2005, Q-layer has reportedly about 35 employees and claims to be the first company to introduce full data center virtualization by integrating server, network and storage virtualization.

 

The companies did not disclose the terms and conditions of the deal.

 

Last year in December, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun Rapid Solutions, a set of three solutions. The company developed the three solutions to target specific customer network infrastructure requirements around global Web buildout, datacenter efficiency, and more.