Kaavo wins cloud-software patent

Grazed from Hartford Business. Author: Editorial Staff.

Stamford cloud-software developer Kaavo says it won a patent on technology that is the centerpiece of a product introduced three years ago.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week issued to Kaavo patent No. 8271974, titled "Cloud computing lifecycle management for N-tier applications.” There are 45 claims in the patent, the company said. Cloud computing is the delivery of software or hardware resources via a network, typically the Internet…

The technology covered in the patent is part of its System Definition File, a single XML file launched in 2009 that captures the topology and orchestration specifications for deploying and managing applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds…

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